Deal with the Dead, Les Standiford
Deal with the Dead, Les Standiford
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Deal with the Dead

Author: Les Standiford

Narrator: Ron McLarty

Unabridged: 11 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/23/2011


Synopsis

Life looks good for John Deal. A new contract promises to put the family business in the black and restore its reputation, tarnished by suicide, the suicide of John's father. Getting out from under Barton Deal's shady past is tough. The new contract is linked to old ties—like the multi-million dollar pact Barton made with Miami mobster Lucky Rhodes decades ago. Now both men are gone, the money has vanished, and Lucky's son wants it back. John Deal is about to discover just how deep blood ties can cut …

About Les Standiford

Les Standiford is the author of the bestselling Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean, Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles, and Meet you in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership that Transformed America, among many other works of fiction and nonfiction. He lives with his wife, Kimberly, in Florida.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mark-

The first two chapters of this book are poorly written. My first thought was that the author was writing in English as a second language. Anyway, it starts out as a banal spy thriller, that would have made Ian Fleming yawn. But, then the writing improves and the Deal family mystery begins. The suspen......more