Wet Work - Softcover

Christopher Buckley

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ISBN 10: 0749308974 ISBN 13: 9780749308971

Publisher: Mandarin, 1992

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When his granddaughter dies from a drug overdose, billionaire Charley Becker starts a private war against dope smugglers and drug barons. The trail of revenge leads him on an increasingly violent and dangerous quest. The author has also written "The White House Mess".

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About the Author:

Christopher Buckley is a novelist and founding editor of Forbes FYI magazine. He lives in Washington, D. C., with his wife and two children. His journalism, satire and criticism has, amongst others, appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Esquire.

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Grandfathers with nothing to lose are the most dangerous avengers, argues Buckley, whose The White House Mess (Knopf, 1986) is still going strong. Here, armed with his puckish humor, and drawing on the milieu of drugs and insurgency, Buckley unleashes a formidable senior citizen's vengeance when his only grandchild dies of a cocaine overdose. After disposing of her domestic predators, the old geezer sets sail in his yacht for the Amazon, bent on eliminating the Peruvian drug lord in his jungle redoubt. Buckley subtly merges the sheer entertainment of a good travel yarn with the vicious motivations of greed to produce a story that deserves a strong recommendation.
- Barbara Conaty, Library of Congress
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