Michigan Roll: A Waverly Thriller

Michigan Roll: A Waverly Thriller

THE MASTERS OF CRIME FICTION BET ON TOM KAKONIS€¦ <br /> <br />€œKakonis can really write. In Waverly, he gives us a wonderful character in a brutal world,€ Tony Hillerman <br /> <br />€œMichigan Roll is fast, strong, harsh and beautiful,€ Donald Westlake <br /> <br />€œA wonderful novel €“ smart, light and mean,€ T. Jefferson Parker <br /> <br />"Tom Kakonis is a master of the low-life novel. Nobody does it better." Ross Thomas <br /> <br />€œA cold-deck nightmare of high-stakes peril,€ Daniel Woodrell <br /> <br />€¦AND A NEW KIND OF HERO IN AN UNFORGETTABLE THRILLER <br /> <br />Ex-con, professional poker player Timothy Waverly travels to Traverse City, Michigan for a break€¦and falls into bed with a seductress named Midnight. She€s an out-of-towner, too, there to rescue her self-destructive brother, who has stupidly ripped off a fortune in cocaine from a vicious Chicago mobster. Now she is being chased pursued by Shadow, a hemorrhoidal hitman who gleefully specializes in torture and rape, and Gleep, his muscle-bound henchman. The odds are stacked against her, but Waverly is a gambler who knows how to play them€¦ <br /> <br />€œA sure narrative voice, a richly shaded hero and heroine, nightmare-vivid villains, and a plot paved with switchbacks and big curves add up to classy, if brutal, crime entertainment: this one cooks,€ Kirkus Reviews <br /> <br />"Aptly compared to Elmore Leonard, Kakonis builds exquisite tension." Publishers Weekly <br /> <br />€œOriginal, brutal, nightmarish. Kakonis is a sharp new gambler in the literary crap game. He just takes the pot,€ <br /> The New York Times <br /> <br />