Turnaround Jack - Hardcover

Abshire, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688052681 ISBN 13: 9780688052683

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1990

Synopsis

Jack Kyle, a private detective and former Dallas police officer, is hired by Guy Borodin to prove that his wife has been having an affair, but Jack's reluctance to accept the case at face value leads him to an international smuggling operation

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From Publishers Weekly:

The opening evocation of Chandler's Philip Marlowe is apt in this wonderfully plotted, fast-moving, slightly jaded mystery. Private eye/narrator Jack Kyle ( Dallas Drop ) is hired by rich, mysterious Cypriot Guy Borodin to follow and photograph his much younger wife, Sylvia. She leads Jack and his operatives on a mildly merry chase, which climaxes in a steamy sex scene that Jack gets on videotape. But preparing a celebratory dinner after making his final report to Borodin, Jack is attacked by thugs. Then the case really blows up with some high-tech murders and the beating of an undercover Fed. Eventually we learn of a triple scam involving Feds, superchips and shady foreign money. Many characters have shocking double identities but Abshire plays fair and we're satisfied at the wry wrap-up. We also get a good look at detection, Texas-style ("PIs don't get to carry guns in Texas") and the possible Manhattanization of Dallas ("Try to find a 7-Eleven clerk who speaks English"). Purists will also be pleased with a PI who smokes and drinks too much.
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About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0688052681
• ISBN 13: 9780688052683
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 261