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Niven, John
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Fiction
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2010
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HarperCollins
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English
β 181 KB
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The Amateurs
β Scribed by Sakey, Marcus
- Book ID
- 107199633
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 187 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
From Publishers Weekly
In Sakey's so-so thriller, four friendsΠ²Πβtravel agent Jenn Lacie, trader Ian Trevarian, hotel doorman Mitch McDonnell and bartender Alex KernΠ²Πβmeet every Thursday night at the Chicago restaurant where Alex bartends and commiserate over their unsatisfying lives. When Alex's boss, Johnny Love Loverin, asks him to act as muscle for a shady back-office deal, the group decides, almost on a whim, to steal Johnny's money. The heist goes smoothly until an altercation in the alley behind the bar leads to murder, and the four friends find themselves with $250,000 and a dead body. Making matters worse, Mitch and Jenn discover that the deal they interrupted wasn't about drugs or guns but something far more deadly. Sakey (Good People) does what he can with the weak premise, but his characters will elicit little sympathy from readers who won't care why the foursome carried out their poorly planned and executed scheme. (Aug.)
Copyright ΠΒ© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
About the Author
Marcus Sakey is the acclaimed author of Good People, The Blade Itself, and At the City's Edge, all three of which are in development as feature films.
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