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A Five-Year Plan - Hardcover

Philip Kerr

 
9780805051766: A Five-Year Plan
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0805051767 ISBN 13: 9780805051766
Verlag: Henry Holt and Co., 1805

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Is there a little larceny in your soul? Then this is for you: a caper novel with an it-could-happen plot and the explosive pace of an action adventure.

Dave Delano didn't spend five years in prison idling away hard time. "I believe in the redistribution of wealth," he told one guard. But redistribution for Dave was strictly personal. His five-year plan aimed to put a million-five into his own pockets.

In the former Soviet Union there are a million scams. Most lucrative is money-laundering. Refitting U.S. yachts to hide dirty dollars and shipping these across the Atlantic on transport ferries destined for Black Sea ports, the mob magically "disappears" its cash into Russian banks. Dave Delano thinks some of that money should be his. It's a simple matter of highjacking on the high seas.

For the Colombian cartel, Europe is a magnet. But landing their coke is another matter. When FBI agent Kate Fury gets a hot tip they are shipping it in a hollowed-out yacht hull via transport ferry, she knows she's onto the biggest collar of her career. Boarding that ferry, she's set to pounce. But she hasn't counted on Dave Delano, who has his own personal agenda. The result is combustion: a fast and very funny romantic caper that will keep you guessing to the end.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Author of Esau ("fires its Crichtonite bullets with deadly accuracy and keeps the pages turning"--Newsday ) and known for his cerebral techno-thrillers and noir novels, Philip Kerr here takes a 180-degree turn to prove he is today's best switch-hitter of terrific commercial fiction.

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Versatile Kerr, last spotted scaling the Himalaya in search of hominids and a CIA zealot (Esau, 1997), heads into Elmore Leonard territory in this amusingly overplotted thriller. When he's finished serving his five years for a manslaughter he didn't commit, Dave Delano, with his earrings and Lucifer beard, looks a lot like a pirate, so it makes sense that he'd think of piracy as his way of getting back on the map. Dave knows that American mobsters have started to launder their drug money by hiding it in yachts being ferried across the Atlantic to the new, mob-infested Russia, and he sees no reason why some of that money shouldn't be his. Naked Tony Nudelli, the capo for whom Dave took the rap, agrees to the extent of staking Dave to a boat of his ownso that he'll have some cover for booking passage on the yacht-carrying Grand Dukeand a minder, Tony's business manager Al Carnaro, ``Colonel Tom Parker with guns and jokes.'' Dave's not to know, of course, that Tony and Al have ideas of their own, or that the comely lady Dave's about to fall for, Kate Furey, has a cover story as bogus as his own. As Dave plies his romance with Kate, an FBI agent on the transatlantic trail of a cocaine shipment her idiot boss, Kent Bowen, is convinced is aboard the Grand Duke, it's clear that something special is in store for the happy couple. But they're so evenly matched as liars and banterers, so equally spirited and attractive, and so evenly handicapped by their sidekicks, murderous Al and troglodyte Kent, that you keep waiting, as Kerr unveils twist after twist (porn filmmaker shipmates, a nasty hurricane, an unexpected change in course), to see which of them will finally get the upper hand. It all makes for a heartlessly accurate, if synthetic, copy of Leonard at his most disarmingand leaves you wondering just how many more voices Kerr has up his sleeve. -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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Verlag
Henry Holt and Co.
Erscheinungsdatum
1805
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0805051767
ISBN 13 
9780805051766
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
352
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