The City Man (Unabridged)

Nominated for a Commonwealth Writers Prize, a Toronto Book Award and an Amazon.ca First Novel Award. March 6, 1934. Hundreds gather outside City Hall to celebrate the Toronto Centenary. In the crowd, pickpocket Mona Kantor and her partner, Chesler, are «in the tip,» finding easy pickings among the jostling masses. Eli Morenz, city man for the Daily Star, is covering the festivities and uncovering the pickpocket racket working the scene. A surreptitious photo and some keen research lead him to an underworld dive in Kensington Market where Toronto's pickpockets converge – and to Mona. Moving from a tense newsroom on King Street to the frenetic grift at Union Station, T…