Thick as Thieves - Softcover

Quinn, Patrick F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425152596 ISBN 13: 9780425152591

Publisher: Berkley, 1996

Synopsis

Mackin, a smooth, sly, businesslike thief, agrees to do a quick job stealing food stamps as a favor to a Chicago mobster, but things go wrong, there are two dead cops with Mackin's fingerprints all over them, and he is forced to run. Reprint.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

The sensational debut of a crime novelist who will remind readers of how thrilling it was to read Carl Hiassen, Robert B. Parker, or Elmore Leonard for the first time. This novel features Mackin, a rogue and a professional thief who survives by being the very best--and by never breaking his own rules.

From Publishers Weekly

Although its pages, littered with made guys and elaborate hits, follows the misadventures of a dedicated crook on a job gone bad, this debut crime story doesn't make it into the Eugene Izzi/Elmore Leonard league. Mackin, a professional thief who agrees to steal food stamps from a printer, is cheated by the black crimelord in charge of the heist, who then sets two crooked cops on his tail. Left with no option but to waste the cops and flee, Mackin vows vengeance. As he delivers on his threat, shady businesses are hit, cars burn and innocents die. A career cop follows the action, as does the mobster who put Mackin in touch with the traitorous crime lord and now is sorry. Although the mobster is in Chicago, the job is in an unnamed nearby city and some of the subsequent action may be in either place. Readers will have further trouble locating themselves in relation to the sharp-edged, unsympathetic Mackin, a rogue who is redeemed by neither the fierce streetwise morality of Izzi's characters nor the gallows humor of Leonard's.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Berkley
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0425152596
• ISBN 13: 9780425152591
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 288