Toronto Star reviews The City man

"Howard Akler ... is the latest in a long line of excellent choices from one of Canada's most adventurous and important small publishers.Akler has taken flight but he's done it in an odd way. No self-stroking autobiographical ramblings for this fellow. He's written what feels like film noir about pickpockets hustling and stealing and fornicating and getting popped in downtown Toront0 in the mid-1930s."