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The Takedown

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This is 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 doesn't 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".

About the Author :
Patrick Quinlan grew up in New York, the youngest child in a big, noisy Irish-American family. He has worked in journalism and politics. He lives on the coast of Maine with his wife.

Review :
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 20070416 '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 20070610 'This is the stuff - violent, pacy, stylish and funny' -- Mirror 20070610 'Quinlan is a confident storyteller who revels in twists and turns' -- Metro 20070610


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780755328277
  • Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
  • Publisher Imprint: Headline Review
  • Height: 29 mm
  • Weight: 607 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0755328272
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2008
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Spine Width: 240 mm
  • Width: 161 mm


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