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Ex-con "Meat" Pitts needs ex-cop Mitchell Morse as an inside man for his daring robbery scheme
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Tom Kakonis has been hailed by critics nationwide as the heir-apparent to Elmore Leonard... and for good reason. His stunning thrillers blend dark humor with gritty storytelling for compelling, and innovative crime noir capers packed with unique, sharply drawn characters and shocking twists. All of those talents are on full display in Treasure Coast, his bold new thriller from Brash Books. But that success is built on a foundation of incredible crime writing. In his highly-praised debut Michigan Roll, Kakonis introduced Tim Waverly – a loveable gambler who constantly finds himself playing a game of survival against the odds. The Waverly series continued with Double Down and Shadow Counter, and Kakonis also penned the hilarious and harrowing Christmas car heist Criss Cross. Kakonis took a darker turn with Blind Spot and Flawless, two mind-blowing thrillers he initially wrote under the pseudonym “Adam Barrow.” Blind Spot is a tour-de-force that tracks a father’s relentless, driving obsession to save his family at any cost, while Flawless, picked as a People Magazine Chiller of the Week, centers on a chilling serial killer as his perfectly-ordered life begins to crumbled when he falls in love, his imprisoned father is released, and a relentless, and sleazy, PI starts to follow the trail of bodies to his door. And now Tom Kakonis is back with the thriller his fans have been waiting to read for years. It was worth the wait. Treasure Coast Is “Get Shorty” meets “No Country for Old Men” on a sunny Florida coast that’s teeming with conmen and killers – and marks the return of Tom Kakonis at his best.
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Milo "Meat" Pitts is back on the Grand Rapids streets after a prison term, anxious to make up for his lost years. With two old friends and his ex-wife he plans a daring Christmas Eve robbery of a Fleets discount store. Mitch Morse, a former cop working security at Fleets, becomes the group's choice for inside man. From the beginning the combination is a marriage made in hell, with all parties deceitful and distrusting of one another. As Christmas Eve approaches, counterplots develop, tempers flare, and success becomes more and more remote. Yet, stakes are high, and all are determined to see the heist through, despite the passion, intrigue, and violence that take the plan spiraling out of control. Unlike his characters, Kakonis is in complete control of his plot and has created a gripping story that can't help but command the reader's attention. Peviewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 10/15/89.
- Thomas L. Kilpatrick, Southern Illinois Univ. at Carbondale Lib.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Thomas L. Kilpatrick, Southern Illinois Univ. at Carbondale Lib.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherPan Books
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0330323679
- ISBN 13 9780330323673
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Paperback. 322 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Pan Books, London, 1992. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have light creasing. Spine has minimal reading creases. . Pages are lightly tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: It's a bone-chilling winter in Grand Rapids. Ex-cop Mitch Morse is stuck in a dreary, dead-end job at a discount store so he can't resist when a smoldering, sexy cashier Starla Hudek asks him to join a gang of down-to-their-last-chance killers and criminals ready to do whatever it takes to pull off the score of a lifetime on Christmas Eve. "Stylishly flamboyant. Kakonis has honed his skills at locking violent characters into harrowing, if often hilarious, straits." - New York Times It begins as an audacious armored car heist. but then things go ho-ho-horribly wrong, and the lust, greed, and scheming spirals out of control, the criss-crossing loyalties and betrayals tightening like a noose around Mitch's neck. *** Quantity Available: 2. Category: Fiction; Thrillers; ISBN: 0330323679. ISBN/EAN: 9780330323673. Inventory No: 11010044. The photo of this book is of the actual book for sale. Seller Inventory # 11010044
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Fair. 352 pages. Cover worn. Text tannedA crime drama from the auth or of Michigan Rolol. Milo Meat Pitts, 20 stone of trouble, is ou t of prison after eight years, and ready to wreak his revenge on the town of Grand Rapids, a third of a million dollars worth of r evenge. When Milo looks for partners, things start to go wrong. Seller Inventory # 2286b
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