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Thomas Dunne
November 2013
On Sale: November 19, 2013
272 pages
ISBN: 1250021456
EAN: 9781250021458
Kindle: B00DA79VJQ
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Suspense | Thriller
Former CIA agent Lemuel Gunn left the battlefield of
Afghanistan for early retirement in the desert of New
Mexico, where he works as a private investigator from the
creature comforts, such as they are, of a mobile
home. Into his life comes Ornella Neppi, a
thirty-something woman making a hash out of her uncle’s bail
bonds business. The source of her troubles, Emilio Gava, was
arrested for buying cocaine. Ornella has reason to believe
he is planning to jump bail. Unless she can find him, her
uncle is going to be $125,000 out of pocket. For
$95-a-day plus expenses (not to mention the pleasure of her
company), Gunn agrees to help Ornella track the wayward
suspect down. Curiously, no photographs of Gava seem to
exist. Once Gunn begins his manhunt, he starts to wonder
whether Gava himself existed in the first
place.
Robert Littell has been widely praised as one of the best
espionage writers of our time. Now, he’s turned his
formidable skills toward crime fiction in A Nasty Piece
of Work, a novel that Le Monde has already
praised as “one of those page-turning detective tales that
feels like an instant classic.… A Chandleresque noir novel,
as delightful as it is suspenseful."
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