Strip
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Description
A bracing and ingeniously cast L.A. crime novel from Edgar Award–winner Thomas Perry
An aging but formidable strip club owner, Claudiu “Manco” Kapak, is robbed by a masked gunman as he places his cash receipts in a bank’s night-deposit box. Enraged, he sends out half a dozen security men to find the witless culprit. Their search leads them to Joe Carver, an innocent but hardly defenseless newcomer who evades capture and sets out to make Kapak wish he’d targeted someone else. Meanwhile, the real burglar, Jefferson Davis Falkins, and his new girlfriend Carrie seem to believe they’ve found a whole new profession: robbing Manco Kapak. Lieutenant Nick Slosser, the police detective in charge of the puzzling and increasingly violent case, has his own troubles, including worries about how he’s going to afford to send the oldest child of each of his two bigamous marriages to college without making their mothers suspicious. As this strange series of events explodes into a triple killing, Carver finds himself in the middle of a brewing gang war over Kapak’s little empire, while Falkins and Carrie journey into territory more dangerous than they could have ever imagined.
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Like Thomas Perry, Edna Buchanan creates a high level of suspense and a rollercoaster effect and often uses the theme of disappearance. Buchanan has only written in series, while Perry writes both stand-alone novels and series books. -- Katherine Johnson
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Perry, T. (2010). Strip . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Perry, Thomas. 2010. Strip. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Perry, Thomas. Strip Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Perry, T. (2010). Strip. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Perry, Thomas. Strip Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
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