The Takedown - Couverture rigide

Quinlan, Patrick

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0312349823 ISBN 13 : 9780312349820

Editeur : Minotaur Books, 2007

Synopsis

When the bullet-riddled body of his former lover and boss, sexy real-estate executive Dot Racine, turns up in the trunk of his car, ex-con Dick Miller suddenly finds himself in the middle of a deadly showdown with Dot's other ex-lover, cocaine dealer and killer Nestor Garcia, a man on the run from the cartels, and Cool Breeze, a ruthless female street warrior. 20,000 first printing.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

Fresh from five years in prison for a pot bust in California, Dick Miller tries to go straight in his hometown of New York City in Quinlan's fine second thriller (after 2006's Smoked). Miller wants to parlay the skills he used in prison--typing--into a job, but instead gets roped into shady work by an old high school buddy who runs a lucrative chop shop. After having a few too many drinks one night, Miller discovers the dead body of his girlfriend, Dot Racine, in the trunk of his car. Miller has no idea who killed her; for all he knows, he may have done it and was too drunk to remember. It's not for a couple of days--! with Dot still in the trunk--that Miller finds out she had been stealing gobs of money from her employer and that lots of p (Publishers Weekly)

'Dismembered bodies and other nasty greetings begin to fall out of Quinlan's unhurried prose, which loops back and forth in time, and through soured deals and seamy scams, in a faint echo of Tarantino's mazy Pulp Fiction' (Financial Times)

'An artfully plotted yarn... Quinlan has something of [Elmore] Leonard's gift for making his amoral cast sympathetic, even lovable, though the real baddie, the bullet-riddled Nestor Garcia, is memorably nasty' (Telegraph)

'A fine second thriller (after 2006's Smoked). Quinlan brings to glorious life several offbeat, at times deviant characters from roads less travelled. The plot hurtles along like an express train to its smashing climax' (Publishers Weekly)

'Patrick Quinlan's follow-up to his assured debut, SMOKED, is a well-plotted New York thriller... Quinlan delights in wrong-footing the reader. This is a fast-moving, hugely entertaining thriller' (Observer)

'This is the stuff - violent, pacy, stylish and funny' (Mirror)

'Quinlan is a confident storyteller who revels in twists and turns' (Metro)

Présentation de l'éditeur

A clever and original crime/thriller from the author of the highly acclaimed SMOKED.

Set in New York, the novel follows the adventures of ex-con Dick, who comes round from what feels like quite a bender to find that there's a corpse in the boot of his Oldsmobile. It's Dot, recently his boss on the Breakout Program and also his on/off girlfriend. That's bad enough, but Dick honestly doesnt know whether he shot her himself or whether someone else did it. Meanwhile Dot's friend Lydia is wondering what the hell has happened to her co-conspirator they've been embezzling the company and they're due to fly to Nassau with the proceeds shortly. And if Dick needed any more bad news, Dot's former squeeze, the very powerful, very clever, very dangerous Nestor Garcia, is headed for Manhattan, having decided he wants Dot back. He won't be at all happy to discover that the chances of a reconciliation are nil, unless necrophilia counts.

A brilliant cast of characters plus some shockingly violent action blended with dark humour make Patrick Quinlan's second novel an entirely satisfying follow-up to SMOKED.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Minotaur Books
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0312349823
• ISBN 13: 9780312349820
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 263
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible