Against the Law, David Gordon
Against the Law, David Gordon
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Against the Law
A Joe the Bouncer Novel

Author: David Gordon

Narrator: Joe Barrett

Unabridged: 9 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/25/2021


Synopsis

A special forces agent-turned-strip club bouncer with a side hustle as a hitman for the New York mob seeks out a deadly drug lord in the poppy fields of Afghanistan.

Joe is a retired Special Forces operative with a bad case of PTSD and some substance abuse issues, trying to rebuild a simple life as a strip club bouncer living with his grandmother in Queens. But this simple life is constantly complicated by the fact that, at the invitation of his childhood friend, now a Mafia boss, Joe also moonlights as a fixer for the most powerful crime families in town.

In his newest assignment, Joe is sent to take out a shadowy figure named Zahir, who made the New York crime families' hit list by hijacking heroin shipments bound for US dealers and funneling the money to terror cells. Which means that Gotham's underbelly has brought Joe back to the one place in the world he doesn't want to revisit: the poppy fields of Afghanistan, a country that left permanent scars on his body as well as his psyche. If he were alone, his past demons might be too much to bear—but luckily, his occasional partner Yelena, a master thief whose skills have found her wanted from Brighton Beach to Moscow, is by his side.

About David Gordon

David Gordon was born in New York City. His first novel, The Serialist, won the VCU/Cabell First Novel Award and was a finalist for an Edgar Award. It was also made into a major motion picture in Japan. His work has also appeared in the Paris Review, the New York Times, Purple, and Fence, among other publications.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Aristotle on March 27, 2022

Wait Did Will Smith just bitch slap Chris Rock at the Oscars? Anyway 'Assassinating drug lords with terrorist ties was something he did part-time when he wasn't busy with his regular gig, as a bouncer at a strip club in Queens.' Now this should be fun And that's what it was, fun. If you're looking for ele......more

Goodreads review by Scott on August 28, 2023

#71- Against the Law and The Wild Life by David Gordon. Against the Law is the third book in the Joe Brody series. Joe is a bouncer with PTSD, some drug addiction issues, he lives with his grandmother in Queens and he sometimes, ok, often, breaks the law. The latter often happens because one of his......more

Goodreads review by Dan on June 18, 2021

The overwhelming beginning here reminds one of Russian novels: many characters with a seemingly endless array of names. Then things begin to pick up, although a simple club bouncer in NYC becomes an international black ops guy, then fights a gang of mercenaries in his backyard. All this can be swall......more

Goodreads review by Liz Benitez on June 27, 2021

At the end of the day, just another liberal hack peddling a tired caricature of the "crazy right ". Completely unbelievable plot; however, the action scenes were well done...except for making a bomb out of uranium and dinamyte. Lol.......more

Goodreads review by Cheryl on August 06, 2021

I love finding new authors. One of the benefits in engaging in social media platforms is exposure to new authors and I am so excited to share this author with you. Against the Law is my first novel from David Gordon and my first Joe the Bouncer novel, the third installment in the Joe the Bouncer ser......more