Bust (Max & Angela, #1 - Hard Case Crime, #20)
by:
Jason Starr (author)
Ken Bruen (author)
5 [IMPORTANT / VALUABLE] LESSONS YOU CAN LEARN BY READING BUST:1) When you hire someone to kill your wife, don’t hire a psychopath.2) Don’t use Drano to get rid of a dead body.3) Those locks on hotel room doors? Not very secure.4) A curly blond wig isn’t much of a disguise.5) Secrets can kill.
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5 [IMPORTANT / VALUABLE] LESSONS YOU CAN LEARN BY READING BUST:1) When you hire someone to kill your wife, don’t hire a psychopath.2) Don’t use Drano to get rid of a dead body.3) Those locks on hotel room doors? Not very secure.4) A curly blond wig isn’t much of a disguise.5) Secrets can kill.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780857683106 (0857683101)
Publish date: March 29th 2011
Publisher: Hard Case Crime (HCC-020)
Pages no: 254
Edition language: English
Series: Max & Angela (#1)
Deliciously reprehensible. Surprisingly light on its feet too; fifty pages of this stuff goes down like a shot. ‘Stuff’ is ‘kill the wife’ and it goes south most entertainingly. “Bust” isn’t anything you haven’t seen before but it won’t half make the commute fly by. This is a soufflé, a romp, popula...
The story of a man, Max Fischer, having an affair with his conniving secretary. Fischer hires a psycho to kill his wife. The psycho is the secretary's boyfriend. In true noir fashion, everything goes to hell. This was a collaboration involving Ken Bruen and Jason Starr. I have never read any Starr. ...
Max Fischer hires a hitman to kill his wife so he can marry his secretary, the surgically enhanced Angela. Little does he know, the hitman is actually Angela's boyfriend and they're plotting against him. Throw in a blackmailer who catches Max and Angela in a compromising position and you have Bust...
Fun and quirky, but rather forgetable.
17 years ago
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