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Description
If you like a heavy dose of mayhem with their murder, this is crime fiction at its most fresh and most fun.
Joe Brody is just your average Dostoevsky-reading, Harvard-expelled strip club bouncer who has a highly classified military history and a best friend from Catholic school who happens to be head mafioso Gio Caprisi.
FBI agent Donna Zamora, the best shot in her class at Quantico, is a single mother stuck at a desk manning the hotline. Their storylines intersect over a tip from a cokehead that leads to a crackdown on Gio's strip joint in Queens and Joe's arrest.
Outside the jailhouse, the Fed and the bouncer lock eyes, as Gordon launches them both headlong into a non-stop plot that goes from back-road gun running to high-stakes perfume heist, and manages to touch everyone from the CIA to the Triads. Beneath it all lurks a sinister criminal mastermind whose manipulations could cause chaos on a massively violent scale.
'A brilliantly goofy caper novel in the grand tradition of Donald E. Westlake' NEW YORK TIMES.
'[David Gordon], who has been turning out delightfully offbeat tales of fringe crooks with plenty of pizzazz (The Serialist, 2010; Mystery Girl, 2013), now stakes his claim as a major player in the comic-thriller world' BOOKLIST, Starred Review.
Product details
| Published | 07 Aug 2018 |
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| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 272 |
| ISBN | 9781788543750 |
| Imprint | Head of Zeus |
| Series | Joe the Bouncer |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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A tour-de-force, ranging from underworld crime to a unique caper and a terrorist plot. David Gordon brings an outstanding new voice to the contemporary crime novel
Robert Crais, bestselling author of The Wanted and other Elvis Cole novels
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Fast, funny and tough, David Gordon's The Bouncer will toss you over his shoulder like King Kong and carry you away
Max Allan Collins, author of Road to Perdition
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A treat – a hard-edged thriller that makes you feel good while you're reading it. Give it to someone. They'll thank you
Thomas Perry, New York Times bestselling author of The Bomb Maker
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Funny, with a satirical edge... Gordon knows how to write a potboiler'
Los Angeles Times
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Darkly comic, stylish literary thriller
Associated Press
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Clever plotting and a light-hearted tone add charm to this lively caper despite its multiple violent deaths... Lots of fun'
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