{"product_id":"the-bouncer-1","title":"David Gordon: The Bouncer [2019] paperback","description":"If you like a heavy dose of mayhem with their murder, this is crime fiction at its most fresh and most fun. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoe Brody\u003c\/b\u003e is just your average Dostoevsky-reading, Harvard-expelled strip club bouncer who has a highly classified military history and a best friend from Catholic school who happens to be head mafioso Gio Caprisi. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFBI agent \u003cb\u003eDonna Zamora, the best shot in her class\u003c\/b\u003e at Quantico, is a single mother stuck at a desk manning the hotline. Their storylines intersect over \u003cb\u003ea tip from a cokehead that leads to a crackdown on Gio's strip joint\u003c\/b\u003e in Queens and Joe's arrest. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOutside the jailhouse, the Fed and the bouncer lock eyes, as Gordon launches them both headlong into a non-stop plot that goes \u003cb\u003efrom back-road gun running to high-stakes perfume heist\u003c\/b\u003e, and manages to touch everyone from the CIA to the Triads. Beneath it all lurks \u003cb\u003ea sinister criminal mastermind\u003c\/b\u003e whose manipulations could cause chaos on \u003cb\u003ea massively violent scale\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'\u003cb\u003eA brilliantly goofy caper novel in the grand tradition of Donald E. Westlake\u003c\/b\u003e' \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'[David Gordon], who has been turning out \u003cb\u003edelightfully offbeat tales of fringe crooks with plenty of pizzazz\u003c\/b\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThe Serialist\u003c\/i\u003e, 2010; \u003ci\u003eMystery Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, 2013), now stakes his claim as \u003cb\u003ea major player in the comic-thriller world\u003c\/b\u003e' BOOKLIST, Starred Review. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gordon, David","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46484390347091,"sku":"9781788543781","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/gordon-david-david-gordon-the-bouncer-2019-paperback-9781788543781-1152879488.jpg?v=1743285940","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/the-bouncer-1","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}