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The year is 1977, and America is finally getting over the nightmares of Watergate and Vietnam and the national hangover that was the 1960s. But not everyone is ready to let it go. Not aging comedian Koo Davis, friend to generals and presidents and veteran of countless USO tours to buck up American troops in the field. And not the five remaining members of the self-proclaimed People’s Revolutionary Army, who’ve decided that kidnapping Koo Davis would be the perfect way to bring their cause back to life... This is the final novel from legendary writer and Mystery Grand Master Donald Westlake!
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Specialist in the scam, the con, and the rip-off, Jerry Manelli is running around New York hot on the trail of a priest: a thousand-year-old, two-foot-tall, ugly, misshapen, dancing Aztec priest made of solid gold, with eyes of pure emeralds, worth a million dollars. Somebody stole it from its museum home in South America and smuggled it through U.S. Customs in a shipment of plastic imitations. But the wrong one got delivered, and the million dollar statue, mixed with the fifteen copies, is somewhere in New York.
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Too Many Characters for Audio!
- By SNAPDRAGON on 07-14-14
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Five Decembers
- By: James Kestrel
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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December 1941. America teeters on the brink of war, and in Honolulu, Hawaii, police detective Joe McGrady is assigned to investigate a homicide that will change his life forever. The trail of murder he uncovers will lead him across the Pacific, far from home and the woman he loves; and though the U.S. doesn't know it yet, a Japanese fleet is already steaming toward Pearl Harbor. Spanning the entirety of World War II, Five Decembers is a beautiful, masterful, powerful novel that will live in your memory forever.
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Fantastic
- By Victor @ theAudiobookBlog dot com on 10-10-22
By: James Kestrel
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The Damsel
- Alan Grofield, Book 1
- By: Richard Stark
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
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The Damsel begins directly after the Parker novel The Handle. Following a wounded Grofield and his damsel on a scenic, action-packed road trip from Mexico City to Acapulco, The Damsel is full of wit, adrenaline, and political intrigue.
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Great listen!
- By Dee on 09-14-20
By: Richard Stark
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- Alex
- 06-02-23
good tense mystery not humorous much different than his Dortmunder books can se how versatile he was
now I want to read his other, serious crime novels, and watch the screenplays he wrote. just learned he wrote a variety of books under different names, and I am eager to try them all.
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- Hank
- 12-28-24
What a surprise
Only Donald E Westlake would come up with a story like this and make it enjoyable. A master unlike anyone else. And the performance was out of this world.
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- rent house guy
- 03-30-16
not my favorite Westlake book
I figured this would be a fun Westlake book and it wasn't. struggle to make it to the end.
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