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The last act: a novel

✍ Scribed by Brad Parks

Book ID: 100552628
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group; Dutton
Year: 2019
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 215 KB
Category: Fiction
City: New York, New York
ISBN: 1524743550

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✦ Synopsis

Award-winning author Brad Parks delivers a tense novel of thrills, twists, and deceit that grabs you and won't let go until the final, satisfying page.

Tommy Jump is an out-of-work stage actor approached by the FBI with the role of a lifetime: Go undercover at a federal prison, impersonate a convicted felon, and befriend a fellow inmate, a disgraced banker named Mitchell Dupree who knows the location of documents that can be used to bring down a ruthless drug cartel. . . if only he'd tell the FBI where they are.

The women in Tommy's life, his fiancee and mother, tell him he's crazy to even consider taking the part. The cartel has quickly risen to become the largest supplier of crystal meth in America. And it hasn't done it by playing nice. Still, Tommy's acting career has stalled, and the FBI is offering a minimum of $150,000 for a six-month gig--whether he gets the documents or not.

Using a false name and backstory, Tommy enters the...

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