The Wake-Up: A Novel
by Robert Ferrigno
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375422498
- ISBN 13
- 9780375422492
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Synopsis: Frank Thorpe is set to board a plane at LAX for a much-needed vacation when he sees an obviously poor young boy knocked out of the way and senseless by an arrogant businessman rushing to a waiting Porsche.
Frank really needs some R & R. He's just been fired—over a fatal screw up—from the covert operations "shop" he's worked at for years. But Douglas Meachum—a hard-charging art dealer—needs to be made to feel something more than entitlement: nothing extreme, just a little wake-up call.
Given Frank's background and his expertise in good guy/bad guy tactics, it's easy for him to set up a scam involving some embarrassing revelations about a faked Mayan sculpture that Meachum sells to one of his clients. But the client isn't someone who takes kindly to mistakes. She's a ruthless social-climbing psychopath who, with her surfer-dude husband (the Thomas Alva Edison of designer pharmaceuticals), runs a huge drug operation. And she's got an invincible thug duo—Vlad and Arturo—to carry out her notions of payback, which make Frank's wake-up scheme seem positively genteel. What started out as a good (if slightly underhanded) deed quickly veers out of control. How Frank handles the chaos—and what he himself hears in the wake-up call—is the fuel that drives this full-throttle, terrifically entertaining novel.
Synopsis
Robert Ferrigno is the author of seven previous novels, including Scavenger Hunt , Flinch , and the best-selling The Horse Latitudes . He lives with his family in the Pacific Northwest. His Web site is www.robertferrigno.com.
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- Bookseller
- Encanto Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9270
- Title
- The Wake-Up: A Novel
- Author
- Robert Ferrigno
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Signed First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0375422498
- ISBN 13
- 9780375422492
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- Crime, Drugs, Mystery, Robert Ferrigno, The Wake-Up
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- Mysteries;
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