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A Dortmunder Novel
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Donald Westlake
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Kelp has a plan, and John Dortmunder knows that means trouble. His friend Kelp is a jinx, and his schemes, no matter how well intentioned, tend to spiral quickly out of control. But this one, Kelp swears, is airtight. He read it in a book.
In county lock-up for a traffic charge, Kelp came across a library of trashy novels by an author named Richard Stark. The hero is a thief named Parker whose plans, unlike Kelp and Dortmunder's, always work out. In one, Parker orchestrates a kidnapping so brilliant that, Kelp thinks, it would have to work in real life. Though offended that his usual role as planner has been usurped, Dortmunder agrees to try using the novel as a blueprint. Unfortunately, what's simple on the page turns complex in real life, and there is no book to guide him through the madness he's signed on for.
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Burke's newest client is a woman named Flood, who has the face of an angel, the body of a high-priced stripper, and the skills of a professional executioner. She wants Burke to find a monster for her - so she can kill him with her bare hands. In this thriller, Andrew Vachss's renegade private eye teams up with a lethally gifted avenger to follow a child's murderer through the catacombs of New York, where every alley is blind and the penthouses are as dangerous as the basements.
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Noir!
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De: Andrew Vachss
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The Firefly
- De: P. T. Deutermann
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
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At midnight, in a secret medical clinic in Washington, D.C., two foreign doctors and their team are completing plastic surgery on an anonymous client who is changing the appearance of his face, among other things. After the procedure, the client begins to stir - and suddenly the operating room erupts in violence, and the clinic is ablaze.
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Great stuff... no place to quit.
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De: P. T. Deutermann
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The Deep Blue Good-By
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- De: John D. MacDonald
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He's a self-described beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game. He's also a knight errant who's wary of credit cards, retirement benefits, political parties, mortgages, and television. He only works when his cash runs out, and his rule is simple: he'll help you find whatever was taken from you, as long as he can keep half.
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Before the A-Team, there was Travis McGee
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Cold City
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If you've never read a Repairman Jack novel, this is the place to begin. It's 1990. A twenty-one-year-old named Jack has dropped out of college, leaving his old life behind to build a new one in New York City. Manhattan's rough edges are jagged enough to shred any unwary newcomer, but perhaps not one who is determined to stay off the grid, at any cost, in the busiest metropolis on earth. And to do so, he'll have to take jobs of a less than legal nature.
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Fun, as long you don't think too much
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De: F. Paul Wilson
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Niceville
- De: Carsten Stroud
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Lee
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A boy literally disappears from Main Street. A security camera captures the moment of his instant, inexplicable vanishing. An audacious bank robbery goes seriously wrong: Four cops are gunned down; a TV news helicopter is shot and spins crazily out of the sky, triggering a disastrous cascade of events that ricochet across twenty different lives over the course of just 36 hours. Nick Kavanaugh, a cop with a dark side, investigates. Soon he and his wife, Kate, a distinguished lawyer from an old Niceville family, find themselves struggling to make sense of it all.
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Good Story- Wrong Reader
- De Stacy en 06-28-14
De: Carsten Stroud
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Sweepers
- De: P. T. Deutermann
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
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In 1969, a Navy SEAL, a trained assassin on a confidential mission, is dropped off in the Vietnam jungle. Days later, a U.S. gunboat returns to pick him up, but the boat's young captain panics under fire and leaves the SEAL behind. Twenty years later, that young captain is now a Pentagon admiral as the SEAL returns to Washington, D.C.
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Deutermann's Best!!!!!
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De: P. T. Deutermann
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The Cleanup
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Matthew Worth is a mess. Somewhere between a good cop and a bad screwup, he botched a marriage and a career. His fellow officers think he’s a joke. His commanders are tired of cutting him breaks. Even his wife has left him for a flashy homicide detective. Busted to night patrol at a robbery-prone Omaha supermarket, Worth is doing time, wearing his uniform and asking shoppers if they want paper or plastic. If that isn’t enough, he suspects he might be falling for Gwen, the shy checkout girl who may be an even bigger mess than he is. It couldn’t get any worse. Until it does.
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A Really Good Modern American Noir Crime Novel
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De: Sean Doolittle
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Aurora
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- De: David Koepp
- Narrado por: Rupert Friend
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In Aurora, Illinois, Aubrey Wheeler is just trying to get by after her semi-criminal ex-husband split, leaving behind his unruly teenage son. Then the lights go out—not just in Aurora but across the globe. A solar storm has knocked out power almost everywhere. Suddenly, all problems are local, very local, and Aubrey must assume the mantle of fierce protector of her suburban neighborhood.
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The Best of Us
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De: David Koepp
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Jumper
- De: Steven Gould
- Narrado por: MacLeod Andrews
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What if you could go anywhere in the world, in the blink of an eye? Where would you go? What would you do?Davy can teleport. To survive, Davy must learn to use and control his power in a world that is more violent and complex than he ever imagined. But mere survival is not enough for him. Davy wants to find others like himself, others who can Jump.
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Lot's of fun
- De Katherine en 03-12-13
De: Steven Gould
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- Mary B. Wheeler
- 08-14-19
Another great Dortmunder
Dortmunder reluctantly gets involved with Andy Kelp in a kidnapping this time. As usual, there are many amusing missteps and mishaps , but it is a fun ride and thoroughly enjoyable. You don't want to miss it!
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- A
- 04-09-14
What a hoot!
I love the Dortmunder series for what it is! Give me more and more of the gang that could shouldn't shoot straight. I am happy to laugh my way through their escapades time after time. Here is a book that you can read with a light heart and a big laugh. Here is a book that isn't pretending or even trying to be great literature. It has no depth. It has no message. It doesn't even call out for a review.
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- Troy
- 08-23-15
The Kid Steals the Show
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Another great entry in the Dortmunder series. I was laughing out loud at a scene where Dortmunder's gang is trying to pull off a kidnapping while in rubber masks.
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- Grandma G
- 12-31-15
Dortmunder Does It Again
Outstanding entertainment. Good and evil? There is no evil. Just entrepreneurship. Clever plot with twists. Brian's voice brings the characters to life.
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- Tim Healy
- 01-13-23
What's up with the narrator
This is a great story, but the choices made by the narrator are inexplicable. Kelp's voice is so high he sounds like a bad cartoon character. Both of the women have 30-year, four pack a day voices. They are indistinguishable from one another. Loved the book...not so much the narration.
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- John
- 11-05-22
A Comic Tour de Force
I've never seen a writer simultaneously:
1. Write a novel based on another novel that he never wrote.
2. Use the first, comic novel to satirize his own darker, more serious work.
3. Make me laugh so hard I almost fell out of my chair. Seriously.
To get the full comic wattage out of this little gem, start at the beginning. That means the first two Dortmunder novels, and at least the first two or three Parker novels (written under the Richard Stark label). Don't worry. You'll enjoy them. And you'll be fully prepared to enjoy this one even more.
At first, Brian Holsopple struck me as a little stiff. But as the story unfolded, I realized his semi-serious local newscaster tone was just that: semi-serious, the perfect key for this hilarious misadventure.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-10-23
A fun crossover
Dortmunder and the gang come across a thrilling crime novel about a team heist led by a professional thief named Parker. Not only does it feature a decent plan like one they could have come up with, it's quite feasible how well the scheme worked out for the characters in that story. So as long as Kelp, Murch, and the others stick to the same plan, what could go wrong?
What they'll never know is, in an almost meta twist, that book's author, Richard Stark, is a pen name of the very author who writes the books they unknowingly live in. In our world, Stark's books have more grit, edge, and those characters are more prone to choose violence than Dortmunder and his friends. Meanwhile, "what could go wrong" is a primary comedic premise of the Dortmunder series, and its author, whose real name is Donald Westlake, is reliably up to the challenge of giving a clever answer to that question in his books, at the gang's expense of course.
The narrator has performed a couple of the Dortmunder audiobooks, and does good voices that give life to the comically likeable characters without distracting or breaking the immersion from the thrilling twists and turns of the story.
Early on, it felt like some details were missing, like the plan was underway without us the readers knowing very well what it was, but snippets of the contents of our protagonists' new favorite novel are revealed alongside their enacting of it, so the reader gets to experience the hilariously "stark" (sorry not sorry for the pun) contrast of results between the two.
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- Cathy
- 03-01-15
I'm loyal to a different reader
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
The book was fine. It's not one that I would recommend. To recommend a book I have to find it especially good.
What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)
Having read Westlake before, the ending was predictable. Endings are not the reason I listen to a Westlake book. I listen for the humor and fun between the beginning and the end.
Did the narration match the pace of the story?
I am sure that Brian Holsopple is a great narrator for many books. With that said, the first 2 Westlake books I listened to were read by Jeff Woodman. His narrating was spot on, and enhanced the books, which is what a good reader should do. Holsopple's voice for women was exceedingly annoying, whereas Woodman's was wonderful. I bought 3 more Westlake books that I have not yet listened to. Sadly, only one was read by Woodman - which I did not know when I bought them.
Did Jimmy the Kid inspire you to do anything?
No.
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- Catherine Zara
- 05-02-14
very funny
Would you consider the audio edition of Jimmy the Kid to be better than the print version?
It's Donald Westlake at his best. A great since of humor.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Mom, is the person you encounter on any day in customer service work.
Which character – as performed by Brian Holsopple – was your favorite?
Holsopple made each person come to life.
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- cynthia reilly
- 03-29-23
Killer ending!
This thing is so creative it should get six stars. And the twist at the end --well the whole thing-- is genius. My only complaint is the narrator picks a couple voices that are so grating and shrill i almost couldnt get thru it. He's usually a good narrator but he blew this one.
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