Title: Gratuitous Violence
Product review: This is a thriller about the Juke Box racket, featuring gangsters directed by a mob boss from Chicago, who terrorize bar and restaurant owners into paying for juke boxes and "service" they may or may not want on their premises. When the owners refuse, the mob enforcers beat them up. The language is supposed to evoke Damon Runyon or Raymond Chandler, but is a poor copy of their laconic style. You have to expect violence in a story like this but this book overdoes it. We don't need that many broken ribs to be convinced.
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