Dead Cat Bounce
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
Stoney gave up drinking, but it couldn't save his marriage. Leaving the big house in New Jersey to his wife and kids, he's living in the City—still working the profitable, if not 100 percent legal, angles with his partner, "Fat Tommy Bagadonuts." Then, out of the blue, Stoney's teenage daughter shows up with a problem: an unwanted admirer who needs to be cooled down . . . or eliminated.
But the secrets Marisa's been keeping from her father—like her night job as an exotic dancer—can't compare with those being guarded by the mysterious and violent man who's stalking her: a dangerous enigma with no past and a made-up name. He does, however, have lots of money—which makes him a very tempting mark for Stoney, Tommy, and their young streetwise "apprentice," Tuco. But people who look too closely into this guy's history have a habit of turning up dead.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Tough guy Stoney, his business partner, "Fat Tommy" Rosselli, and their young associate, Tuco, are back in this fine follow-up to Green's hard-boiled debut, Shooting Dr. Jack (2002). Stoney's been living in an apartment in New York City's East Village since his wife, Donna, kicked him out of the house, and his AA meetings provide structure but no comfort when he's missing his family. A rare rendezvous with his 17-year-old daughter, Marisa, puts him on the trail of a creepy Mr. Prior, whom Marisa describes as her mother's suitor. But when Stoney starts nosing around, he finds that Prior is actually stalking Marisa, who has been secretly working at a strip club. As Stoney probes Prior's shady affairs and apparently blank past, the dead bodies start piling up. Stoney sets up a wonderfully convoluted sting to take down the canny criminal who threatens his daughter. Green's well-drawn characters and nimble plot lift this above the common run of mysteries.
