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Watch Your Back! (Dortmunder Novels)
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Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
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Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: April 18, 2005
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Hapless criminal John Dortmunder returns in another rollicking tale of disorganized crime from Grand Master of Mystery Donald E. Westlake. It's the score of a lifetime: easy access to a lavish New York City apartment, hordes of valuables, and an absentee owner avoiding the lawyers of his unhappy ex-wives. But before they pull the job, Dortmunder's crew is startled to find their beloved gin joint, the OJ, in the clutches of the Mafia-who consider it perfect for a little fraud, courtesy of a nice big fire. For tactical and highly superstitious reasons, the fate of the OJ is even more important to the crew than the enormous score. Now, Dortmunder and his gang are determined to split their time, fighting the mob and robbing the rich simultaneously.
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Rating:  - On a par with the 87th Precinct novels
Since Ed McBain's departure, I've been looking for a writer guaranteed to end a reading slump. I think I've found one. Actually the Dortmunder series and the 87th precinct have a lot in common. They're both humorous, they both rely on multiple characters and story lines, and both writers are deceptively adept prose masters.
The biggest difference between the two is that Westlake has us cheering for the crooks. In this one, Dortmunder's fence, Arnie Albright, has set the gang up to rob ... Read More
Rating: - A Near-Perfect Comic Crime Caper Plot
Many plots are like gravel pits, full of harsh points that don't fit together very well. Why? I don't know. Perhaps the authors just write without having the end in mind. Or perhaps some authors like messy, pointless plots. Every once in awhile I have the pleasure of reading a book where all of the elements work smoothly together taking me effortlessly and comfortably to unexpected and interesting places. Watch Your Back! is one of those books.
But that's not why you read Dortmunder ... Read More
Rating:  - Thank God and Westlake for Dortmunder
The comic caper novel is a rare genre. Few do it well. Westlake does it magnificently. I laughed out loud, chuckled and guffawed my way through this book. It reads fast and is the appropriate bit of froth and fun to cleanse the palete.
Dortmunder and gang are immortal. My one (very minor) complaint is that I missed May -- I needed to know what was on sale at Bohack's!
Having moved to the west coast I gleefully anticipate Stan Murch's driving directions to bring back all the ... Read More
Rating: - Westlake's Dortmunder and crew may have a tough time making crime pay but are always worth their weight in gold for laughs
Donald Westlake a gift for comic timing. It's the same kind of deadpan humor that you could have seen in an old Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton film, and yet it never degenerates into broad slapstick. The latest Dortmunder comic mystery is no exception. Westlake as always, crafts a villain so slimy, one Preston Fareweather, that you just want something - anything, to happen to him. And it does - John Dortmunder and his merry band of criminal misfits.
As you follow the misadventures of Dortmunder and ... Read More
Rating: - The Hot Prufrock
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, the muttering retreats of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels and sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells; streets that follow like a tedious argument of insidious intent to lead you to an overwhelming question ... What rough beast is slouching toward the O.J. Bar & Grill?
Why, who else but John Dortmunder, discount-rack mastermind and Louis Napoleon of Crime? On the first page of "Watch Your Back," Dortmunder enters the O.J. in a perfectly ... Read More
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