- Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Seal Books; 1st printing edition (Mar 16 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0770427952
- ISBN-13: 978-0770427955
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 11.4 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 159 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,959,951 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Phillip Kerr, a bestselling author in his native U.K., has been called "Michael Crichton's smarter brother" due to his wide-ranging intelligence and technical knowledge. Dave Delano, the protagonist of this lively thriller, is an American who's educated himself in prison--serving a sentence for a manslaughter he didn't commit. Newly fluent in Russian, he's intrigued by the idea of redistributing wealth, particularly the Mafia's. His plan is to hijack a transatlantic transport ferry/yacht being used to smuggle drug money and to divert the dollars into his very own bank in the former Soviet Union. It all seems flawless until he meets another Grand Duke passenger who's looking to score: Kate Fury, a gorgeous FBI agent who's been tracking cocaine from Colombia to Miami to the European playgrounds of the rich and expecting the biggest collar of her career. What happens when they cross paths is the stuff of a funny, violent, and oddly romantic caper. The plot twists fast enough to satisfy even die-hard Elmore Leonard fans and turns on double dealing, false identities, and misunderstood motives, without letting the humor get in the way of the action. --Jane Adams
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Narrator Boyd Gaines seems to have an enormous amount of fun with the characters in Kerr's latest thriller, who include mobsters, Russians, porn stars, and assorted ocean-going scoundrels. During his five years in prison, Dave Delano developed a plan: get aboard a sea transport and hijack a large yacht that is smuggling money for the Russian mob. Such a plan takes financing, so Delano turns to the American mob for backing, which they give along with Al, a ruthless button man who is their loan security. Meanwhile, FBI agent Kate Fury and her Kansas-bred, ocean-loathing, oversexed male supervisor are working the same transport looking for illegal drug shipments. And then there is the all-female crew of a yacht owned by a porno film company that is also being transported. Patrons who like Donald Westlake's Dormunder series will enjoy this. Highly recommended.?Ray Vignovich, West Des Moines P.L., IA
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: The Five Year Plan (Mass Market Paperback)
Oh-my-god! Airport-bookstore ultralight-reading mass-market paperback for the mass-market reader. Kerr has done soooo much better before and after this one. Even his books for children have more interesting plots than this one.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good enough for pool-time!,
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This review is from: The Five Year Plan (Mass Market Paperback)
As a not-so-avid reader, i picked this book up because it was so cheap and i needed something to read at the pool! It has met my expectations. A little romance, a little trash, a little humor; it is perfect for passing the time! I have really enjoyed it but have never read any other books by this author. I think for a hard-core reader, it may not do the trick, but for a quick and easy read, this is your ticket!
1.0 out of 5 stars
What Happened?,
By JFM (Maspeth, NY USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Five Year Plan (Hardcover)
After being enthralled by his beautifully evocative "Berlin Noir" trilogy, it came as a huge disappointment that Kerr has elected to trespass on Elmore Leonard's turf armed with as little wit and originality as this book exhibits. We've met more interesting versions of these characters in Leonard's works and, what's worse is that the reader can see each plot twist come from 50 pages away. Compared to "Berlin Noir", the writing is lazy and uninspired. The plot line, itself, seems to have been pulled from the B-movie recycle bin.
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