In the brutal world of Prohibition, a rogues’ gallery of financially and morally bankrupt speakeasy owners concoct the perfect plan to get rich quick – and more importantly, obtain the status and respect they deserve. The plan is as simple as it is elegant: murder a drunk for insurance money. It’s the Depression, after all, and everyone’s got their own pockets to mind. Who’s gonna care – or even notice – that one anonymous barfly’s gone missing?
When Mike Malloy stumbles in, the gang knows they’ve got the perfect mark: a deadbeat drunk teetering on the edge of existence, with no place to call home, and most importantly – no friends or family to call the cops when he bites the big one. Based on the exceptionally true story of Mike Malloy, IRON tells the tale of one innocent, seemingly unkillable drunk; the saps, mopes, mooks, boobs, mugs, and dumb Doras who are desperate to see him dead and gone; and the impossible real-life miracles that saw one hapless drunk defy death itself.
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I found it really difficult…
I found it really difficult to get a firm grip on what the premise is and what the story is actually about. The characters are quite well-defined but there's so much going on at once that if there is an inciting incident showing us the direction the story is taking, then it's not at all obvious.