A Nasty Piece of Work

✍ Scribed by Littell, Robert

• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 127 KB
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

A master of the spygenre crafts an exemplarydetective novel, starring a
former CIA agent turned private investigator,that already has the feel
of a classic

Robert Littell has been widely praised as one of
the best writers in the espionage genre. Now, he's turned his formidable
skills towards crime fiction in a novel that has echoes of the great
Raymond Chandler.

Former CIA agent Lemuel Gunn left the
battlefield of Afghanistan for the desert of New Mexico, where he works
as a private investigator from the comforts, such as they are, of a
mobile home. Into his life comes Ornella Neppi, a thirty-something woman
making a hash out of her uncle's bail bonds business. The source of her
troubles, Emilio Gava, was arrested for buying cocaine. He's jumped
bail and now she's about to pay the price for it. Curiously, no
photographs of Gava seem to exist. And once Gunn begins his search, for
$95 a day plus expenses, it becomes unclear whether Gava even existed in
the first place.