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Jimmy the Kid

Audiobook
Fiction: Mystery & Detective
Unabridged   5.75 hour(s)
Publication date: 03/05/2013

Jimmy the Kid

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Digital Download ISBN:9781622310449

Summary

Life imitates art in this caper featuring bungling criminals who base their kidnapping plan on a novel.

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Product Description

Kelp has a plan, and John Dortmunder knows that means trouble. His friend Kelp is a jinx, and his schemes, no matter how well intentioned, tend to spiral quickly out of control. But this one, Kelp swears, is airtight. He read it in a book.

In county lock-up for a traffic charge, Kelp came across a library of trashy novels by an author named Richard Stark. The hero is a thief named Parker whose plans, unlike Kelp and Dortmunder’s, always work out. In one, Parker orchestrates a kidnapping so brilliant that, Kelp thinks, it would have to work in real life. Though offended that his usual role as planner has been usurped, Dortmunder agrees to try using the novel as a blueprint. Unfortunately, what’s simple on the page turns complex in real life, and there is no book to guide him through the madness he’s signed on for.

Reviews/Praise

“Narrator Brian Holsopple pulls out all stops in delivering an array of exaggerated players in this classic (1974) crime caper. . . . As for the listeners, fun is had by all.”
      —AudioFile

Author Bio

DONALD WESTLAKE (1933-2008) wrote more than 100 books, winning three Edgar Awards and the title of Grand Master from the Mystery Writers of America. He also wrote 5 screenplays, including The Grifters, for which he received an Academy Award nomination.

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