THE TAKEDOWN

A clever and original crime/thriller from the author of the highly acclaimed smoked. set in new york, the novel follows the adventures of ex-con dick, who comes round from what feels like quite a bender to find that there´s a corpse in the boot of his oldsmobile. it´s dot, recently his boss on the breakout program and also his on/off girlfriend. that´s bad enough, but dick honestly doesn´t know whether he shot her himself or whether someone else did it. meanwhile dot´s friend lydia is wondering what the hell has happened to her co-conspirator - they´ve been embezzling the company and they´re due to fly to nassau with the proceeds shortly. and if dick needed any more bad news, dot´s former squeeze, the very powerful, very clever, very dangerous nestor garcia, is headed for manhattan, having decided he wants dot back. he won´t be at all happy to discover that the chances of a reconciliation are nil, unless necrophilia counts. a brilliant cast of characters plus some shockingly violent action blended with dark humour make patrick quinlan´s second novel an entirely satisfying follow-up to smoked.