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Shake-Down

hardcover. Condición: Very Good in Dustjacket. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 1977. Putnam. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0399119159. 287 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Mike Stromberg. keywords: Mystery America. DESCRIPTION - The heart of this wonderfully suspenseful caper is a fantastic multimillion-dollar fraud. The brilliant young author of THE MULLENDORE MURDER CASE, Jonathan Kwitny, here tells the tale of master swindler Michael Carmody in a shakedown so ingeniously achieved the reader is more inclined to marvel than condemn. Besides, in the end, Carmody gets his just deserts. En route we are held in thrall by the puzzles and threats Carmody poses for Frank Scanlon, newspaperman turned FBI agent, then private sleuth. What Scanlon confronts - and the reader can relish his adventures as the novel's chapters alternate between Scanlon's story of pursuit and the actual events - is the swindling of the Quincy Corporation, a company perfectly set up for Carmody's larcenous skills. Stanley Timmons, treasurer of the New York State construction company is $80,000 in debt to the underworld - and too desperate a man to refuse the embezzlement scheme Carmody proposes. As Timmons issues scores of checks to a bogus company, Carmody finds an obscure rural southern Georgia bank whose president is willing to cash them - to the tune of nearly five million dollars! Scanlon, however - and Carmody's hoodlum pals - are not far behind. SHAKEDOWN boasts a cast of fascinating characters, including Carmody's beautiful but estranged wife, Sybil, and some sinister Appalachian moonshiners whose rich bootlegging operation is financed by the corrupt banker. In a beautiful surprise ending, hero Scanlon prevails and we heave a sigh of satisfaction. Mr. Kwitny has himself pulled off the neatest trick of all - a perfect beaut of a suspense novel. inventory #15004. Nº de ref. del artículo: z15004

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