Bouncer

Book Title: Bouncer
ISBN: 9781788543781
By Author(s):GORDON DAVID
By Publisher:HEAD OF ZEUS
Format:PB

If you like a heavy dose of mayhem with their murder, this is crime fiction at its most fresh and most fun.
Joe Brodyis just your average Dostoevsky-reading, Harvard-expelled strip club bouncer who has a highly classified military history and a best friend from Catholic school who happens to be head mafioso Gio Caprisi.

FBI agentDonna Zamora, the best shot in her classat Quantico, is a single mother stuck at a desk manning the hotline. Their storylines intersect overa tip from a cokehead that leads to a crackdown on Gio’s strip jointin Queens and Joe’s arrest.

Outside the jailhouse, the Fed and the bouncer lock eyes, as Gordon launches them both headlong into a non-stop plot that goesfrom back-road gun running to high-stakes perfume heist, and manages to touch everyone from the CIA to the Triads. Beneath it all lurksa sinister criminal mastermindwhose manipulations could cause chaos ona massively violent scale.

‘A brilliantly goofy caper novel in the grand tradition of Donald E. Westlake‘NEW YORK TIMES.

‘[David Gordon], who has been turning outdelightfully offbeat tales of fringe crooks with plenty of pizzazz(The Serialist, 2010;Mystery Girl, 2013), now stakes his claim asa major player in the comic-thriller world‘ BOOKLIST, Starred Review.Read less