Bernie Rhodenbarr is back and he's after the prized coin collection of one Herb Colcannon and he has the inside information to help him....or so he thinks! But the Colcannon house is a set-up and he's not the first to think of the heist. What's more the collection consists of just one coin...worth over $250,000...so who is Bernie going to sell it to and how is he going to get away with it?
'Lawrence Block's language - is dry and droll and elegant, like how Dashiell Hammett would write if he was still doing the Thin Man books today'
- The Guardian [read the full review]
Bernie Rhodenbarr doesn't have to try for hipness, because hip is in the very air he breathes. The Burglar is just
adorable. He is cute without being cuddly, he is witty without looking like he's striving for it, and he is rakish
without possessing a single mean streak in his lithe and sinuous body. And his language - I suppose we should say
Lawrence Block's language - is dry and droll and elegant, like how Dashiell Hammett would write if he was still doing
the Thin Man books today.
The Guardian
'For clean close-to-the-bone prose, the line goes from Dashiell Hammett to James M Cain to Lawrence Block. He's that good'
- Martin Cruz Smith
'A master of crime fiction'
- Jonathan Kellerman
'Block is one of the best '
- Washington Post
'if you are coming new to Lawrence Block.....it will be the beginning of a beautiful friendship'
- Vincent Banville, Irish Times