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  <title><![CDATA[Don't Ask]]></title>
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  <default_description>It's not just any bone, It's a femur. An 800-year-old femur. An 800-year-old femur of a 16-year-old girl who just happened to have been killed and eaten by her own family. Then the Church made her a Saint. Then John Dortmunder stole the bone. Twice. Don't ask why two European nations have been fighting like dogs over this bone. Don't ask how Dortmunder's gang of honorable crooks, from master driver Stan Murch to man-mountain Tiny Bulcher, got caught red-handed with the bone and were plunged into the middle of an international incident. Don't ask, because you don't need to. John Dortmunder has all the answers, and this time he's about to parlay a very old femur into an act of beautiful, larcenous revengeone that will cut right to the bone....</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1993</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Donald E. Westlake]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sun Jul 12 18:53:18 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my very favorite Dortmunder novels. A pleasure to re-read, marred only by the sadness of knowing that there will never be another. I am particularly fond of Dortmunder's revenge in this one, especially since he often never gets his revenge. Here, however, the thrills and the laughs are oh so ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63211099">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Happiness is discovering that you have a Dortmunder novel right there on the shelf that you've never read.  Especially since Westlake's death on Dec. 31, I treasure every word of the few of this series that I haven't read yet.  Another, I believe, is due out posthumously, and I just read <em>What's So F...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53993445">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Nov 25 13:37:37 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dortmunder and the gang are hired by one East European country to steal a relic from another East European country. What I particularly liked about this book was the way this plot expands and expands but still comes together beautifully at the end – that and some laugh out loud moments, great line...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78980778">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71126823">
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  <date_added>Sun Sep 13 20:06:02 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[AKA: Alan Marshall, Alan Marsh, James Blue, Ben Christopher, Edwin West, John B. Allan, Curt Clark, Tucker Coe, P.N. Castor, Timothy J. Culver, J. Morgan Cunningham, Samuel Holt, Judson Jack Carmichael, Richard Stark, Donald E. Westlake]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Jan 08 08:36:24 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[John Dortmunder, the incompetent criminal, has been asked by a small country to steal a bone for them.  Along the way he steals some art as well. Very funny]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[My first Dortmunder novel, I found this to be the light-hearted version of Parker from the one Parker novel I've read. I enjoyed the creative turns the plot took and the story gets an A for originality, that's for damn sure. At times though I found myself putting down the book to do something else e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13112237">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very, very funny.  Jason and I love the Dortmunder books.  I know language can be a problem in these books, but Jason reads them aloud to me and censors as he goes.  So, I'm not sure how bad it really is.  Hilarious, though!]]></body>
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    <review id="56684997">
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    <body><![CDATA[Dortmunder &amp; Co. steal a bone.<br/><br/>No, a bone.  Like, a femur. Human bone.<br/><br/>You can never, ever go wrong with Westlake!]]></body>
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    <review id="32757997">
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not into crime fiction, at all, but this caper story I liked because, in my head, it read like a light-hearted satire of Ocean's 11 (the movie, I haven't read the book). It would make a very nice movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger as Grijk and George Clooney as Kelp. (So much for a decent review, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32757997">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Donald Westlake books.  This is one of his Dortmunder books.  Dortmunder is a professional burglar who is a great planner, mostly harmless, but quite unlucky.  It is a well-written, light read.  If you need a laugh or think your life is bad this can help.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[smart, funny, twists and turns - splendid. crackling dialogue, some laugh-out-loud moments. I'm looking forward to reading more Dortmunders..]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the funniest detective stories I've read in a long time.]]></body>
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