Bagmen, William Lashner
Bagmen, William Lashner
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Bagmen

Author: William Lashner

Narrator: William Lashner

Unabridged: 10 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 08/05/2014

Synopsis

Victor Carl is back, and back in trouble. At a low point in his lowly career, Victor finds himself skulking through the streets of Philadelphia carrying a bag full of money for an ambitious politician. It is a rotten job on the wrong side of anyone’s line, but with bag in hand Victor is suddenly hobnobbing with the city’s elite, filling his bank account, and having sex with the politician’s gorgeous and deranged sister. But just when Victor begins to think he’s got a future in the political game, one of his payoffs ends up in the pocket of a dead woman, and Victor goes from bagman to fall guy. Now Victor’s only way out might lie with a brotherhood of shady characters with sacks full of cash, bad fedoras, and their own twisted set of rules. Will Victor’s new friends help him find a killer or bury him deep?

About William Lashner

William Lashner is the New York Times bestselling creator of Victor Carl, a character Booklist called “one of the mystery novel’s most compelling, most morally ambiguous characters.” The eight Victor Carl novels, which include A Killer’s Kiss, Marked Man, Falls the Shadow, Past Due, Fatal Flaw, Bitter Truth, and Hostile Witness, have been translated into more than a dozen languages and are sold all over the world. He is also the author of the bestselling thrillers The Accounting and Blood and Bone, as well as the novel Kockroach, which he published under the pseudonym Tyler Knox. Before leaving his job to write full-time, Lashner was a criminal prosecutor with the Department of Justice in Washington, DC. He is a graduate of NYU’s School of Law and the prestigious Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He lives outside Philadelphia with his wife and three children and his dog, Chase Muttley.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kathleen

When lawyer Victor Carl is, once again, down on his luck and prowling the courthouse for clients, any clients (“DUI’s, half-price”) he bumps into an old law school friend. A friend with a lucrative offer: her employer, who shall remain anonymous, needs a bagman for the campaigning Senator DeMathis.......more

Goodreads review by Gloria

Victor Carl returns in the eighth entry in this series, with which for some reason I had no familiarity until this novel. But I certainly plan to read anything this author writes in future: it is simply terrific, and was a complete change of pace for this reviewer. Carl is an attorney; well, more acc......more

Goodreads review by Ed

Many years ago William Lashner stated in a postscript on I think, book seven of this extraordinarily good legal thriller series that he was ending the series featuring his quite unique protagonist, Philadelphia lawyer Victor Carl. I was disappointed because Victor Carl is my all time favorite fictio......more

Goodreads review by Beverly

He's back!!!! He's back!!!! Victor Carl is back!!!! And better than ever. Lashner's hiatus from this series allowed him to sharpen his wit and up the cleverness quotion. This is a story of urban, political corruption (we know about bagmen in Chicago) which echoes raincoat and hat noir, Shakespeare,......more

Quotes

“An enjoyable and entertaining read.” —The Crime Scene“If they gave a Pulitzer Prize for snappy dialogue, William Lashner would be a betting favorite every time…Lashner has a talent for creating memorable characters—or maybe caricatures would be a better word. Either way, they’re a lot of fun. He introduces Victor to a group of bagmen who in another era would have done Damon Runyan proud…So sad to read about in the paper, so much fun to read about in Bagmen.” —Philadelphia Inquirer

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