Airtight, J.P. Smith
Airtight, J.P. Smith
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Airtight

Author: J.P. Smith

Narrator: Daniel May

Unabridged: 8 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 11/20/2012


Synopsis

Nick Copeland has lost his mind only twice in his forty-eight years—once in college on a bad acid trip, and once at this very moment, as the mountain of bills he’s been hiding from his family finally topples. But Nick’s chance meeting with an old friend, Rob Johnson, pulls on the memory wires. Rob—who’s already lost his wife and job—seems resigned to a life of basic cable and Chinese takeout. Suddenly, the answer to their problems arrives: two airtight jars of high-grade heroin they’d buried under the football field of their old college campus.Returning to the scene of the crime-that-never-happened seems like a cinch—that is, until Nick takes a trip down Memory Lane and a sharp right turn on Law Enforcement Drive. This is not the beads-and-bellbottoms of their youths, but maybe the Stones were right, anyway: you can’t always get what you want.Tarintino meets Mamet in this action-packed trip from the prolific literary novelist J.P. Smith.

About J.P. Smith

J.P. Smith was born in New York City, raised five minutes from the Bronx, and educated in Westchester. He began his writing career in London, where his first novel, The Man from Marseille, was published, then optioned for a film. He’s also the author of The Blue Hour, Body and Soul, Breathless, and The Discovery of Light, which won the Barnes and Noble Discover Award. Smith is a regular contributor to The Nervous Breakdown and The Millions. His screenplay, Chasing Daylight, was a quarterfinalist for the Nicholl Fellowship. His latest script, The Memory Thief, is currently in pre-production. Airtight is the first novel he’s written that comes directly from his life—or at least the germ of it can be located there.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Traci

I’m not a thriller reader, preferring nonfiction. But I keep reading everything J.P. Smith writes because he’s really a writer of the complexities and vulnerabilities of the human predicament disguised in the pleasure of page-turner thrillers. AIRTIGHT is no exception. On its face it’s the story of......more

Goodreads review by CJ

This was a crazy great read! I'm an avid reader, been around the block a time or two and finding great read, one that keeps you looking forward to the next.chapter isn't easy. This guy knows how to write. You feel the characters like they are your family. It's hard to explain just read some of.his wo......more

Goodreads review by Judith

I didn't really know what I was getting when I bought this. It turns out to be an okay thriller, maybe a bit better than okay. Nick Copeland was an advertising man until he was invited to make way for younger folks. He hit the job market and found nobody buying. He even went to a jobs fair. His whole......more