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Nebraska priest Father Michael Wilson journeys to New York City to investigate the disappearance of his brother, Tony, and finds himself overseeing Tony's business, a topless restaurant, and embroiled with drug dealers, Mafia wiseguys, strippers, and murder
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From Kirkus Reviews
Lively debut of a mystery series by the author of Take Five (1982), etc. Once known for his off-putting and dense verbal energy, Mano has slimmed down to a racing-car sentence that still packs high- powered inventiveness. Tony Wilson, the brother of Father Mike Wilson, an Episcopal priest in Nebraska, has disappeared in Queens. Will Mike come east and run Tony's topless bar for his wife Ethel and their four daughters until Tony resurfaces? Mike leaves his librarian fianc‚e Kay behind, finds himself hiring and firing topless dancers at the Smoking Car (Mano handles all this flesh marvelously, does a knockout documentary on topless dancers as professionals), and ends up knee-deep in money, hoods, drug sales, dancers, and then blood as in succession four of his dancers are murdered, three of them on the stage itself (one is beheaded). Will Kay understand when she comes east and finds a naked dancer waiting on the couch? And when the papers shout PRIEST RAN TOPLESS MURDER BAR, will the church understand? Stylish first bow of the defrocked priest hero. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
From Library Journal
Most collections will also want to purchase Mano's mystery/thriller. His personal research shines forth in this story of an equivocal Episcopal priest, Mike Wilson, who temporarily assumes management of his brother's topless nightclub when the brother disappears. Called to Queens (New York City) by his distraught sister-in-law, Mike faces possible gambling and drug problems at the club, temptations of naked flesh and dirty dancers, and then blame for a series of grotesque murders. Mike's diary--by turns irreverent, introspective, ingenuous, and humorous--provides the distinctive narrative for an otherwise standard plot.
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- PublisherFawcett
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0449221652
- ISBN 13 9780449221655
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
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