Strip (Playaway Adult Fiction Ser.)

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Synopsis
&“An amazingly entertaining crime novel&” from the New York Times bestselling author of the Butcher&’s Boy thrillers (Chicago Sun-Times, Favorite Books of the Year). One of Stephen King&’s &“Must-Reads for Summer&” (Entertainment Weekly)A New York Times Notable Crime Book An aging but formidable strip club owner, Claudiu &“Manco&” Kapak, has been robbed by a masked gunman as he placed his cash receipts in a bank&’s night-deposit box. Enraged, he sends his half-dozen security men out to find a suspect who is spending lots of cash and is new enough to Los Angeles not to know he was robbing a gangster. Their search leads them to Joe Carver, an innocent but hardly defenseless newcomer who evades capture and sets out to make Kapak wish he&’d chosen someone else. Meanwhile, the real culprit, Jefferson Davis Falkins, and his new girlfriend Carrie seem to believe they&’ve found a whole new profession: robbing Manco Kapak. Lieutenant Nick Slosser, the police detective in charge of the puzzling and increasingly violent case, has his own troubles, including worries about how he&’s going to afford to send the oldest child of each of his two bigamous marriages to college without making their mothers suspicious. As this odd series of difficulties explodes into a triple killing, Carver finds himself in the middle of a brewing gang war over Kapak&’s little empire, while Falkins and Carrie journey into territory more strange and violent than either had imagined. &“Perry is at his wicked best in Strip.&”—The New York Times &“[A] rambunctiously entertaining L.A. crime novel . . . escapist reading at its best.&”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Copyright:
2011

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Book Size:
353 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780547487182
Related ISBNs:
9780156035590
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Language:
English
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Categories:
Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
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