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 ...
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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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Good. The front cover has a slight forward lean. RELIABLE library withdrawal with a NICE dust jacket in the plastic, protective cover. Stamped at the page edge with a card pocket page on the inside. Light scuff to the plastic cover. This edition is PRESENTABLE!
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book 1st edition, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. An art related mystery featuring Frank Thorpe. He is on the trail of a legit business man who is scamming the art world. GUMSHOE NOMINEEE.
