Pierre Qui Roule
ISBN:
9782743616151 (2743616156)
Publish date: 2006
Publisher: Payot & Rivages
Pages no: 300
Edition language: French
Series: Dortmunder (#1)
This is somewhere between Bernie Rhodenbarr and Evan Michael Tanner, with a likable rogue getting into ever increasingly ludicrous situations. This isn't as well drawn as either of those, but there's enough promise (and enough laugh out loud moments) for me to check out more of the series.
Fresh out of the clink, John Dortmunder gets draw into stealing an emerald belonging to an African nation. Only circumstances work against Dortmunder and his crew and turn the one heist into five. Will Dortmunder and crew ever get their hands on the emerald?Wow. I'd heard the Dortmunder books wer...