Author: Robert Ferrigno
Year: 2004
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Fiction, Mystery, Crime
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9780375422492
9781400033874
0375422498
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Frank Thorpe is set to board a plane at LAX for a much-needed vacation when he sees an obviously poor young boy knocked out of the way and senseless by an arrogant businessman rushing to a waiting Porsche.
Frank really needs some R & R. He's just been fired-over a fatal screw up-from the covert operations "shop" he's worked at for years. But Douglas Meachum-a hard-charging art dealer-needs to be made to feel something more than entitlement: nothing extreme, just a little wake-up call.
Given Frank's background and his expertise in good guy/bad guy tactics, it's easy for him to set up a scam involving some embarrassing revelations about a faked Mayan sculpture that Meachum sells to one of his clients. But the client isn't someone who takes kindly to mistakes. She's a ruthless social-climbing psychopath who, with her surfer-dude husband (the Thomas Alva Edison of designer pharmaceuticals), runs a huge drug operation. And she's got an invincible thug duo-Vlad and Arturo-to carry out her notions of payback, which make Frank's wake-up scheme seem positively genteel. What started out as a good (if slightly underhanded) deed quickly veers out of control. How Frank handles the chaos-
and what he himself hears in the wake-up call-is the fuel that drives this full-throttle, terrifically entertaining novel.
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