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Strip
by Perry, Thomas
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1849162662
- ISBN 13
- 9781849162661
- Seller
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About This Item
London: Quercus. Very Good. 2010. Reprint; First Printing. Paperback. Light reading and cover creases, light shelf wear with tiny split to base rear edge of spine. ; First printing of Quercus paperback edition with full number line, 2010. Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover design uncredited with photos courtesy of Getty Images. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 480 pages; Strip club owner Manco Kapak is robbed by a masked gunman while placing his cash receipts in a bank's night-deposit box. Kapak is determined to find the culprit and make him pay. After a month of investigation Kapak's goons settle on the innocent but tough-as-nails Joe Carver, who escapes their attention and is furious that he's been falsely accused. Meanwhile the real culprit and his new girlfriend believe they've found a whole new profession, robbing Kapak of his strip club's cash. As the case explodes into a triple killing, Carver finds himself in the middle of a brewing gang war over Kapak's little empire, ploughing into territory more strange and violent than he could ever have imagined. .
Synopsis
A bracing and ingeniously cast L.A. crime novel from Edgar Award–winner Thomas Perry An aging but formidable strip club owner, Claudiu “Manco” Kapak, is robbed by a masked gunman as he places his cash receipts in a bank’s night-deposit box. Enraged, he sends out half a dozen security men to find the witless culprit. Their search leads them to Joe Carver, an innocent but hardly defenseless newcomer who evades capture and sets out to make Kapak wish he’d targeted someone else. Meanwhile, the real burglar, Jefferson Davis Falkins, and his new girlfriend Carrie seem to believe they’ve found a whole new profession: robbing Manco Kapak. Lieutenant Nick Slosser, the police detective in charge of the puzzling and increasingly violent case, has his own troubles, including worries about how he’s going to afford to send the oldest child of each of his two bigamous marriages to college without making their mothers suspicious. As this strange series of events explodes into a triple killing, Carver finds himself in the middle of a brewing gang war over Kapak’s little empire, while Falkins and Carrie journey into territory more dangerous than they could have ever imagined.
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- Bookseller
- Books in Bulgaria
(BG)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 34697
- Title
- Strip
- Author
- Perry, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1849162662
- ISBN 13
- 9781849162661
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2010
- Keywords
- THRILLER, Crime
- Bookseller catalogs
- Thrillers;
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