Cop Job (Sam Acquillo Hamptons

Chris Knopf

ISBN 10: 157962393X / ISBN 13: 9781579623937

Published by The Permanent Press, 2015

Good condition ex-library book with usual library markings and stickers. Seller Inventory # 00099806909

Synopsis:

The sixth installment in the Sam Acquillo Hamptons Mystery series brings back Knopf's ensemble of famously eccentric and involving characters, not the least being Sam's dog Eddie Van Halen. A hardboiled crime novel, it also examines the fraught intersection of wealth, culture, politics and the ravages of an ugly war. Combine beautiful watery setting with a unique look into the underbelly of the Hamptons, it's an action and suspense story you won't find anywhere else.

It's bad enough when someone you know is brutally murdered, it's worse when the guy was a paranoid schizophrenic helplessly bound to a wheelchair. Sam Acquillo and Jackie Swaitkowski tried to look after Alfie Aldergreen, as had others around the Village of Southampton, but now they were forced to wonder, what else could they have done?

One thing is for certain, Alfie's killers are about to know what it means to murder a friend of Sam, former corporate troubleshooter, former professional boxer and all-around ornery bull dog, and Jackie, a defense lawyer often described as an avenging angel.

About the Author: CHRIS KNOPF'S twelve previous mysteries have critics likening Sam Acquillo to Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade, Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe and Robert Parker's Spenser, while repeatedly comparing Knopf to Elmore Leonard.

The Last Refuge was a finalist for The Connecticut Book Award. Two Time (2007) was named a runner-up for this same prize. It was also one of thirteen mysteries listed in Marilyn Stasio's "Recommended Summer Reading" column in The New York Times Book Review, was listed in Entertainment Weekly as one of the 50 "Hot Picks" of that summer, and Publishers Weekly chose it as one of the "Best 100 Books for 2006."

Head Wounds (2008) won the 2008 Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Myster. Last year he won the 2013 Nero Award for Dead Anyway, the first in a new series featuring Arthur Cathcart, followed by Cries of the Lost (2013) and A Billion Ways to Die (2014). His mysteries have had overseas subrights sales in the UK, Canada, Japan, Spain, Germany, Turkey, Italy, England, and China.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Cop Job (Sam Acquillo Hamptons
Publisher: The Permanent Press
Publication Date: 2015
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good