Slay Ride: He Knows Where You Live - Softcover

Grabenstein, Chris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786718773 ISBN 13: 9780786718771

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub, 2006

Synopsis

Complaining about a reckless limousine driver he encountered at the beginning of a Christmas season business trip, executive Scott Wilkinson finds himself targeted by the mentally unstable and vengeful driver when the latter embarks on a quest for vengeance. By the author of Tilt-a-Whirl. Simultaneous.

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About the Author

Chris Grabenstein was the first writer hired as a result of James Patterson’s famous advertising aptitude test that ran in the New York Times when Patterson was creative director of J. Walter Thompson. He spent several years at the nation's top ad agencies. Before he started in advertising, Grabenstein also worked with Bruce Willis (among others) in some of New York’s most acclaimed improvisational comedy troupes. A member of Mystery Writers of America, he lives in New York City. SLAY RIDE is his third novel, following on from his John Ceepak/Jersey Shore mysteries, TILT-A-WHIRL and MAD MOUSE.

Reviews

At the start of Grabenstein's riveting third novel (after 2006's Mad Mouse), ad exec Scott Wilkerson makes the fatal mistake of complaining about his driver after a wild taxi ride to Newark airport. Lucky Seven cabs are dispatched from Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, where "Thieves in Law," a Russian exile mafia, rule the roost. Driver Nicolai Kyznetsoff (aka "Grandfather Frost" with a Santa hat) plans to settle the score with Scott at his "dacha," a broken-down cabin in the Pennsylvania woods. A gripping subplot finds off-duty FBI agent Christopher Miller on the trail of the "Man in the Moon," a serial killer who has been taking out cab drivers with every full moon on the Jersey shore where Scott and his family live. These two intrigues connect after Miller uncovers a money-laundering scheme in Brighton Beach. Not for the weak of stomach, this Christmas-season thriller involves raunchy strip shows and graphic KGB-style executions. (Nov.)
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Advertising executive Scott Wilkinson has a very nice life: a lovely home in suburban New Jersey, a beautiful wife, a baby boy, and a little girl on the way. But his charmed existence becomes cursed when he steps into a Lucky Seven airport limousine driven by an embittered one-time agent of the KGB. Nicolai Kyznetsoff is already enraged at the world when Wilkinson dares to admonish him for being a few minutes late. After surviving a white-knuckle ride to LaGuardia, Wilkinson calls Lucky Seven to file a complaint and is soon kidnapped. His worried, very pregnant wife refuses to sit around and wait. Meanwhile, across town, FBI special agent Christopher Miller, placed on probation for outshining his jealous boss, uncovers details of Russian diamond smugglers who transport the booty in nesting matryoshka dolls. This is the third offering from comedy-troupe alum Grabenstein (Tilt-a-Whirl, 2005), who makes up for tepid suspense with a cast of flawed, lively characters, including a portly limo driver, Kostya Garvonik, who inhales Russian pastries as if it were a competitive event. Allison Block
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Edition details

• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786718773
• ISBN 13: 9780786718771
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 380