Don't Ever Get Old
When Buck Schatz, senior citizen and retired Memphis cop, learns that an old adversary may have escaped Germany with a fortune in stolen gold, Buck decides to hunt down the fugitive and claim the loot. But a lot of people want a piece of the stolen treasure, and Buck’s investigation quickly...
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When Buck Schatz, senior citizen and retired Memphis cop, learns that an old adversary may have escaped Germany with a fortune in stolen gold, Buck decides to hunt down the fugitive and claim the loot. But a lot of people want a piece of the stolen treasure, and Buck’s investigation quickly attracts unfriendly attention from a very motley (and murderous) crew in Daniel Friedman's Don't Ever Get Old, nominated for an Edgar Award for Best First Novel.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781250028921 (1250028922)
Publish date: April 30th 2013
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Baruch (Buck) Schatz was once a legend in the Memphis police department. He has been retired for some 30 years now and is 85 or so. Basically all he does is watch TV, take pills, and go to funerals. One of his former army buddies, Jim Wallace, calls Buck to his hospital room for a final confession, ...
Debut novel featuring a retired Memphis homicide detective who is definitely not the cuddly old person type. This was nominated for the Edgar best first and was different enough to be entertaining. Listened to the audio which was read by Nick Sullivan who had the main character's raspy and a bit a...
In his last few weeks, my grandfather was wracked by constant pain, the cancer that later killed him taking its sweet damn time to rip and tear, piece by piece, through every joint and cavity. He moved into hospice care--a lousy low-cost cell with a lousy little bed and a lousy la-z-boy knockoff an...
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