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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100679454292
ISBN-139780679454298
eBay Product ID (ePID)546249
Product Key Features
TopicMystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, General, Action & Adventure
Book TitleDeath and Life of Bobby Z
Publication Year1997
Number of Pages259 Pages
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
AuthorDon Winslow
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight20.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN96-052202
Reviews"Packs the wallop of a semiautomatic weapon."Newsday "Fast-paced . . . full of explosive action and deliciously evil characters."Chicago Tribune "One of the funniest and fastest-moving novels in recent years. The action is relentless, the characters wild." San Diego Union-Tribune "The plot unfolds at the speed of sound. . . . As much fun as a barrel of monkeys--all of them armed." Men's Journal From the Trade Paperback edition.
Dewey Edition21
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal813.5/4
SynopsisWhen Tim Kearney draws a license plate across the throat of a Hell's Angel, he's pretty much a dead man. It's his third crime and, according to California law, that gives him "life without the possibility of parole." Killing a Hell's Angel also makes him a dead man on any prison yard in California. That's when the DEA makes Kearney an offer: impersonate the late, legendary dope smuggler Bobby Z so that the agency can trade him to Don Huertero -- northern Mexico's drug kingpin -- for a captured DEA agent. Tim Kearney bears an uncanny resemblance to Bobby Z, and, with some training, he might be able to pass. Or not. But, really, what choice does he have? So, he's off to a compound in the middle of a desert that's been designed by Huertero's number-two man to look like the Arab fort in his favorite movie, Beau Jeste ("The Santa Fe thing had been done to death.") Kearney's surprised when he meets Bobby Z's old flame, Elizabeth, who was never mentioned in his training, and her son, who she claims belongs to him. It's a short vacation by the pool before Kearney's on the run from drug lords, bikers, Indians, and cops ... and the kid's along for the ride. Some of the pursuers want Bobby Z, and some want the considerably less legendary Tim K. Whether he pulls it off, whether he can keep the kid and the girl and his life, makes for a hilarious, fast-paced, and truly touching novel.
LC Classification NumberPS3573.I5326D4 1997
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- 31. Dez. 2024
Winslow's a new favorite writer.
My brother recommended Don Winslow and a few of his titles - this was one of 5 books I ordered and one of the first I read. Excellent. A page turner. Compelling. Great characters and dialogue and a twisty layered plot. I was sorry it ended. Luckily, jumped right into the next book by Winslow.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
