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The Monkey's Fist
Drawn out of retirement by a lucrative freelance job, former Washington, D.C., homicide detective Eddie Nickles finds himself matching wits with Russian criminals, ex-KGB operatives, and a top secret U.S. agency. 75,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo.
368 pages, Hardcover
First published July 1, 1996
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June 10, 2021
Picked the ex-library hardback from a junk shop up in Paringa, SA while on a road trip from Melbourne to Perth. Ok, oldish style US detective thriller.
September 6, 2026
The last 150 pages made the annoying, talking in circles, dialog worth it. Loved how it all played in the end. Eddy for the win.
November 8, 2014
I would like to add 1/2 star for the sheer complexity of this novel in which the plot is like a monkey's fist knot in which one strand is wrapped round and round to become a compact, unassailable fist. By and large an enjoyable, and certainly challenging read in which one is forced to keep characters straight in a story where you can't tell the white hats from the black hats. The characters, however, are only actors in the sometimes violent drama as there is little time to portray these actors in more than broad brush strokes. For those who enjoy the spy/counterspy genre, the author sets this mind game in a somewhat different setting producing an admirably executed novel.
September 20, 2014
Lots of twist and turns in this multi-continent spy/government thriller. Fell in love with the retired cop, Eddie Nickles...he made the story.
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