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Payback

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Published March 6, 1997 at 11:00 PM CST

Commentator Alan Cheuse reviews "Payback," a debut novel by Thomas Kelly about two Irish brothers caught up in the struggle between honest labor and mob corruption. Publisher is Knopf.

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