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Watch Your Back!
A John Dortmunder Mystery
Donald E. Westlake
ISBN: 0446617121
Mass Market Paperback, 360pp
Publication Date: March 2006
Publisher: Warner Books
List Price: $7.50
Synposis (from the publisher): It's a long way from the island of Manhattan to the island resort where Preston Fareweather has his hedonistic hideout - avoiding the legal prosecutions of five embittered ex-wives and enjoying the attentions of the prettiest gold diggers who happen to come his way. A terrible human being, Preston makes the terrible mistake of getting friendly with an equally dyspeptic personality: a New York fence named Arnie Albright.
Arnie went to the island paradise to become a happier man. It worked. After a week with Preston, Arnie comes home to New York with a whole new attitude and a proposition for his associate John Dortmunder: a can't miss, million-dollar robbery - of Preston's nearly unguarded, art-filled Fifth Avenue penthouse. With Arnie taking a measly thirty percent cut, it's practically charity for the master thief.
But when Dortmunder and his clean-up crew get together to plan the heist, they quickly get distracted. The place they meet, the place they have always met and always will meet - the O.J. Bar & Grill - has fallen into the clutches of a mob crew. Suddenly a billionaire from Fifth Avenue and a would-be Tony Soprano from New Jersey have one thing in common: John Dortmunder is after them both at the same time...and disaster can't be far behind.
Additional Notes:
12th John Dortmunder mystery.
Hardcover: Warner Books 0892968028 (April 2005).
