Strip
by:
Thomas Perry (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780547487182 (0547487185)
Publish date: May 13th 2010
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Manco Kapak owns a string of strip clubs and conducts a little bit of questionable business on the side to supplement his income. Jefferson Davis Falkins decides he’s found a new way of making money that does not involve real work of any kind … he just keeps robbing Manco when he makes his night de...
Absolutely delightful stand-alone Perry. It begins well, as Carver, suspected by Manco Kapak, a local mobster of having held him up and stealing a week's worth of receipts (he didn't), is hiding out in the cab of a 250-foot crane at a construction site. Feeling this is probably the safest place he ...
A solid pleasurable three, up until a few last-minute plot-twist shivs made me marvel at Perry's attention to plot and character.At his best, Perry does two things exceedingly well. One, he has an eye and ear for all kinds of telling details--flour on a typepad to reveal a password, the way shatter...