Michigan Roll: A Novel - Hardcover

Kakonis, Tom E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312022522 ISBN 13: 9780312022525

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1988

Synopsis

Stated First Edition. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Dust soiling to the edges of the book's upper page block. The author's first mystery.

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Well plotted, tautly paced and entertaining all the way, Kakonis's first novel focuses on an English professor gone wrong. A few years back, Waverly caught his wife in bed with another man, and the murderous aftermath led him into seven years of very hard time in state prison that toughened him up but simultaneously made him curiously vulnerable to certain things and people. Now, he is applying his exceptional powers of concentration to cards and making a nice living. The last thing he needs is poor little rich girl Holly Clemmons and her ne'er-do-well brother, a self-destructive lunatic who is trying to rip off a drug shipment from the mob. There are other satisfactorily gothic villains here, ranging from a Mafia smoothie named Dietz, to his hemorrhoidal henchman Gaylor Ledbetter, hitman "Shadow," a pathological knifeman, and "Gleep," a hulking muscle-man. In the climactic scene, the hero wages a nightmarish war with a contract killer who just keeps on coming no matter what is thrown at him. Kakonis's prose is clipped, idiomatic and funny in this literate thriller.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

"Live behind your own eyes. Scrimmage on your own turf"this is the lesson that college professor-turned-gambler Timothy Waverly has learned from seven years in prison for a crime of passion. After he returns home to Traverse City, Mich., a beautiful woman with an elusive past draws him into a cat-and-mouse game with the tough men pursuing her. Euphemism replaces harsh fact in this world, where gang bosses talk of "inventory control" and "profit margins." Kakonis displays his eye for quality sleaze and ear for crisp dialogue in this debut novel. The two sociopaths who pursue Waverly are genuine originals, both comic and menacing. Fans of Elmore Leonard and Loren D. Estleman will recognize this "slippery splintered world, everything infected, gone wrong. ' 'David Keymer, SUNY Coll. of Technology, Utica
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312022522
• ISBN 13: 9780312022525
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288