Get What's Coming - Hardcover

Reaves, Sam

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399140182 ISBN 13: 9780399140181

Publisher: Putnam Adult, 1995

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Now working as a chauffeur for wealthy developer Regis Swanson, ex-cabbie and Vietnam vet Cooper MacLeish finds himself in the middle when Swanson's son is shot in a murky affair that draws attention from the DEA on one side and a couple of stone killers on the other. Once again it will be up to Cooper to fix things, at the risk of his life.

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Cooper MacLeish returns, in this gripping, explosive thriller set on the darker side of Chicago's mean streets.
"Reaves has created a likable, straightforward character in Cooper MacLeish, and has proven he can move a plot along as swiftly as a hustler getting sinners down the aisle to a collection plate," praised the Atlanta Journal & Constitution. Now Sam Reaves spins a new hard-boiled adventure with Cooper at its exciting center.
Even with his cab-driving days now only a memory, MacLeish doesn't need to look for danger; it finds him. In Get What's Coming, Cooper is newly married to longtime girlfriend Diana and gainfully employed as chauffeur for the very well-heeled Regis Swanson, a powerful Chicago real estate developer. Cooper seems to have found his comfort zone--until Swanson's son Nate is shot at the Blue Angel, the hot nightclub he manages and where the elder Swanson himself is a silent partner. The cops say drug deal gone bad, but Cooper doesn't buy it.
All too familiar with society's ragged edges and unable to stand by as Regis Swanson's life disintegrates, Cooper looks for a pattern in a tangled web of deception. Alone, he senses the connection between a misguided hit and a suitcase full of misssing cash; alone he follows a trail of tips, near misses and allegations, which lead to drug money, some fast and loose DEA operatives, a belligerent labor union and a pair of anomic tourists named Turk and Ferocious Dick. Finally, Cooper will be forced to risk everything to confront the killer at the dark heart.
Fast-paced and hard-driving, Get What's Coming is a rousing page-turner from start to finish.

From the Back Cover:

Even with his cab-driving days on Chicago's meaner streets behind him, Cooper MacLeish doesn't need to go looking for trouble. It finds him.
Working as a chauffeur for real estate developer Regis Swanson might seem like a no-hassle deal, but when Swanson's son is shot in his own nightclub, Cooper and danger are back in harness. To the cops it looks like a drug deal gone bad, but Cooper's instincts tell him there's more to it--something that links a botched mob hit and a missing suitcase full of cash.
Swanson desperately needs to know the truth, but caught between a rogue DEA team and a pair of out-of-town mob executioners known as Turk and Ferocious Dick, Cooper is about to find out just what a deadly commodity truth can be.

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