Nevertheless, Charlie manages to win the race and get the job. Charlie feels both confident and anxious, particularly when faced with one of his competitors, the bullying Barlow. When Charlie arrives at Squizzy’s center of operations, he finds that he is expected to run a race with three other young men. Instead, he sets off for a meeting with Squizzy Taylor, an ambitious small-time criminal who needs someone to work as a “runner” in his operation, someone who does errands and makes deliveries. The story is told from the first-person perspective of protagonist Charlie Feehan, fighting to live up to the increased sense of responsibility to his family that he feels in the aftermath of his father’s death.Īs the novel begins, Charlie, who is a self-trained athlete, says goodbye to his mother, who thinks he is going to school. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Newton, Robert.
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