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The Smack
The Smack: A Novel | Richard Lange
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"That rare thriller that will jack your pulse even as it breaks your heart."--Adam Sternbergh, author of Shovel Ready Rowan Petty is a conman down on his luck. He's flat broke, living out of cheap hotels, and wondering how it all went wrong. His car quits on him in Reno, and he takes a job there on the bottom rung of a lousy phone scam. When he's not swindling lonely widows, he tries to turn nickels into dimes at the poker table. One snowy night, he crosses paths with a sweet-talking hooker who's tired of the streets, and sparks fly. When an old friend of his turns up spreading a rumor about two million dollars in army money smuggled out of Afghanistan and stashed in an apartment in Los Angeles, it seems like a chance at the score of a lifetime. So Petty and the hooker head south, and straight into trouble. A wounded vet, a washed-up actor, and Petty's estranged daughter are all players in the dangerous game they find themselves caught up in. For the winner: a fortune. For the loser: a bullet to the head. Propulsive, suspenseful, and written with a searing lyricism, The Smack shows once again that "Lange is a writer firing on all cylinders who belongs in the top tier of novelists working today" (Omaha World-Herald).
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VeryLazyDaisy
The Smack: A Novel | Richard Lange
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Here‘s the rest of my #bookhaul
Grand total for this year‘s book sale season is *drumroll* 126 books. (That is NOT counting the ones DH got) 📚😊 Funny story, I picked up The Smack, but my brain thought it was The Slap. Derp. Lol. I can re-donate it.

I‘m so happy right now.. high on that sweet, sweet smell of ink and paper.

I‘m building a book fort.

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MrBook
The Smack: A Novel | Richard Lange
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#TBRtemptation post 3! #PhillyMeetUp edition. Just released. A 4.19-star GR rating! Down-on-his-luck conman Rowan and fed-up hooker Tinafey meet in Reno and they hit it off. An old friend of Rowan's says that there's $2 mill stashed in an LA apartment smuggled in by American soldiers serving in Afghanistan. He's the right man for a theft. Rowan heads down to take a look. Tinafey joins him. Bad move, guys. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

Cinfhen I'm intrigued 🤗 7y
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Saberle
Smack | Richard Lange
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Richard Lange is one of the best. Think Connelly, Winslow and Blauner. They are the best and so is Lange. This book has a lot of what makes a book great. Easily identifiable characters who are facing life' problems head on. Drugs, money, ex - wives and sick kids. Add con jobs both long and short and you have what makes this book so entertaining.