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The Smack - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Richard LangePublish date:2018-11-13Pages:368
Language:EnglishPublisher:Mulholland BooksISBN-13:9780316327619ISBN-10:316327611UPC:9780316327619Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Crime, Literary, PsychologicalSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCM514KY1X
Rowan Petty is a conman down on his luck. He's flat broke, living out of cheap hotels, and wondering how it all went wrong. His car quits on him in Reno, and he takes a job there on the bottom rung of a lousy phone scam. When he's not swindling lonely widows, he tries to turn nickels into dimes at the poker table.

One snowy night, he crosses paths with a sweet-talking hooker who's tired of the streets, and sparks fly. When an old friend of his turns up spreading a rumor about two million dollars in army money smuggled out of Afghanistan and stashed in an apartment in Los Angeles, it seems like a chance at the score of a lifetime. So Petty and the hooker head south, and straight into trouble.

A wounded vet, a washed-up actor, and Petty's estranged daughter are all players in the dangerous game they find themselves caught up in. For the winner: a fortune. For the loser: a bullet to the head. Propulsive, suspenseful, and written with a searing lyricism, The Smack shows once again that "Lange is a writer firing on all cylinders who belongs in the top tier of novelists working today" ( Omaha World-Herald).
Language:EnglishPublisher:Mulholland BooksISBN-13:9780316327619ISBN-10:316327611UPC:9780316327619Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Crime, Literary, PsychologicalSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCM514KY1X
Richard Lange is the author of the story collections Dead Boys and Sweet Nothing and the novels This Wicked World and Angel Baby. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the International Association of Crime Writers' Hammett Prize, and the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Los Angeles.
Publisher: Mulholland Books

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