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Against the Law : A Joe the Bouncer Novel Hardcover David Gordon
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- Special Attributes
- EX-LIBRARY
- Publication Name
- Penzler Publishers
- ISBN
- 9781613162262
- Book Title
- Against the Law : a Joe the Bouncer Novel
- Book Series
- Joe the Bouncer Ser.
- Publisher
- Penzler Publishers
- Item Length
- 9.4 in
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.3 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Thrillers / Crime, Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Mystery & Detective / General, Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators
- Item Weight
- 22.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.4 in
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penzler Publishers
ISBN-10
161316226X
ISBN-13
9781613162262
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7050402534
Product Key Features
Book Title
Against the Law : a Joe the Bouncer Novel
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Thrillers / Crime, Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Mystery & Detective / General, Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
Joe the Bouncer Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
22.6 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
An irreverent and funny twist on the classic whodunit?the kind of pulp-fiction mystery that made the careers of such writers as Jim Thompson, Raymond Chandler, and Dashiell Hammett., This one has everything, from a car chase that makes what Steve McQueen does with that Mustang in Bullitt seem like a Sunday drive, to a showdown in a Russian bathhouse that is part Marx Brothers and part Kill Bill. For anyone with a taste for blood-spattered comic capers featuring characters who vault off the page, Against the Law is an exquisite fever dream in Technicolor., Funny, with a satirical edge, and unlike some literary authors who play with genre, Gordon knows how to write a potboiler . . . An impressive debut., David Gordon's The Bouncer is a treat?a hard-edged thriller that makes you feel good while you're reading it. Give it to someone. They'll thank you., Fast, funny and tough, David Gordon's The Bouncer will toss you over his shoulder like King Kong and carry you away., Feels like a return to some of the best American crime fiction of the 60s, 70s and 80s. The emphasis is on entertainment in a way that I think the likes of Donald Westlake would approve of., If you like a liberal dose of humor in your suspense fiction, then look no further than David Gordon's clever new caper...The Bouncer has 'film adaptation' written all over it., Gordon is fashioning himself an impressive crime world niche somewhere between Donald Westlake and Elmore Leonard, with his raucous, rollicking stories of New York City crime . . . Come for the intricate, surprising crime scenarios; stay for the banter.--CrimeReads Gordon's sentences are crisp and often jarring. His plots unspool in strange, sometimes disturbing ways . . . enjoy the disorientation and to trust that you're in the hands of an earnest storyteller.--Paris Review, on White Tiger on Snow Mountain Gordon has a knack for twisty story lines, nonstop action, and over-the-top sequences.--Publishers Weekly David Gordon brings an outstanding new voice to the contemporary crime novel.--Robert Crais, David Gordon has written a passionate love story disguised as a mystery, a brainy tragicomedy, a bildungsroman wherein 'the gumshoe learns the shocking secret of himself.' His prose is by turns salacious, uproarious, and happily unhinged. A total delight., David Gordon has gathered up our cultural trash and made of it something magnificent. In the tradition of Bolano, Chandler, and lots of dime novels that most of us pretend to know nothing about, The Serialist makes high art out of serial murders, pornography, soup dumplings and pulp fiction. I adore this book!, I have rarely come across a writer in such command of the English language. His sentences, characterizations and set pieces are things of beauty., Everyone involved is heavily armed, ruthless, and possessed of an irresistibly off-kilter sense of humor., Gordon's sentences are crisp and often jarring. His plots unspool in strange, sometimes disturbing ways . . . enjoy the disorientation and to trust that you're in the hands of an earnest storyteller., The Bouncer feels like the introduction to a series...loaded with interesting, quirky characters who are just different enough from those one usually encounters in a crime novel to shoulder its way to the top of your reading list...Gordon has garnered critical acclaim for his previously published fiction but deserves more notice in the public eye. This may be the book that provides that impetus. And somebody in the video industry needs to read it as well., Gordon is fashioning himself an impressive crime world niche somewhere between Donald Westlake and Elmore Leonard, with his raucous, rollicking stories of New York City crime . . . Come for the intricate, surprising crime scenarios; stay for the banter.
Series Volume Number
3
Synopsis
Joe is an ex-Special Forces operative with a bad case of PTSD and some substance abuse issues, trying to rebuild a simple life as a strip club bouncer living with his grandmother in Queens. But this simple life is constantly complicated by the fact that, at the invitation of a childhood friend, now a Mafia boss, Joe also moonlights as a fixer for the most powerful crime families in town. In his newest assignment, Joe is sent to take out a shadowy figure named Zahir, the faceless name behind White Angel, a powerful new brand of heroin invading the mob's territories and threatening their sales. Then Joe discovers a link between Zahir and a shady group of private military contractors, and the stakes of his mission become increasingly deadly. Soon the Five Boroughs are on the verge of an all-out drug war, pitting Joe and the crime world's most infamous talents against a ruthless clan of professional killers. Joe's only chance to calm the violence is to intercept the newest shipment of Zahir's product--if his skills as a master thief prove up to the task. A comic caper with heists, car chases, and shoot-outs aplenty, Against the Law is Joe the Bouncer's most exciting outing to date, as humorous as it is thrilling. Gordon's memorable characters, tight plotting, and breathless action sequences make this a standout in the pantheon of the New York crime novel, certain to appeal to fans of authors such as Donald E. Westlake and Elmore Leonard., A Special Forces agent turned strip club bouncer with a side hustle as a fixer for the New York mob seeks the source of a new brand of heroin flooding the city streets
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