Thick as Thieves

by Patrick Quinn

Mackin, a smooth, sly, businesslike thief, agrees to do a quick job stealing food stamps as a favor to a Chicago mobster, but things go wrong, there are two dead cops with Mackin's fingerprints all over them, and he is forced to run. Reprint.

Genres: Crime

288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 31, 1995

About the author

Patrick Quinn is a writer of thriller fiction. His first novel, "Thick As Thieves," was published in 1995. In 2000, it was made into a movie by HBO Productions.

Quinn lives in Lawrence, Kansas and is presently completing his second book.

Reviews

[Philo]

Wonderful crime-fiction. We’ll-developed characters, fast-moving plot line, tight writing style. I loved it. Highly recommend.

[Zefyr]

A decent quick crime/revenge novel, but not something to go out of the way for. It's predictable, except where it's so vague that I kept flipping back to figure out if I missed something: are we in Chicago still? Why are the stolen food stamps suddenly worthless just because the framed guy got away? How does two dead cops chalk up to the worst cop killing in Chicago history? Is it because it wasn't actually in Chicago but Quinn couldn't make it clear? The book would have benefited from being a smidge longer in order to be a smidge clearer, but that wouldn't have fixed the main problem, which is the shallow-as-raindrops main character. It was pretty impressive how much plot Quinn stuffed in to under three hundred pages; it would have been nice with a simpler plot and just a hair more depth in...really, any of the characters at all.