The Deal Goes Down, Larry Beinhart
The Deal Goes Down, Larry Beinhart
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The Deal Goes Down

Author: Larry Beinhart

Narrator: Paul Heitsch

Unabridged: 8 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/04/2022


Synopsis

Ex-private eye Tony Casella lives in the Catskill mountains, a lonely old tough guy whose body can no longer do what it once did. His wife and son are dead; his daughter barely talks to him; his bank is in the process of foreclosing on his home.

But a chance encounter with a rich young woman on a train changes everything. He is hired to take care of her superrich, sexual predator husband. That job leads to others and he joins a small start-up whose mission is to save women from abusive marriages. Provided their spouses are in the top 0.01%. It's a luxury service destined to make great profits.

Tony's problems seem to be over, but are they? An old, angry associate is determined to get his cut of Tony's earnings, murky government agents start to tail him, and when he is sent to the Austrian alps to kill a Russian oligarch and rescue his American wife, all hell breaks loose . . .

Packed with action, The Deal Goes Down is an unforgettable portrait of a Lion in Winter who still has a few tricks up his sleeve, from a writer garlanded with awards and critical acclaim and whose novel American Hero was made into the classic film Wag the Dog.

About Larry Beinhart

Larry Beinhart is best known as the author of Wag the Dog (originally published as American Hero), on which the film starring Robert DeNiro, Dustin Hoffman, Willie Nelson, and Woody Harrelson was based. His No One Rides for Free received the 1987 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. Beinhart spent two years in Oxford, England, where he was the Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellow at Wadham College. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, and the Chicago Tribune. Beinhart worked for AlJazeera English and on the TV news magazine show Empire as a writer/producer/director. He resides in Woodstock, New York.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrew

Larry Beinhart is a must read for anyone who likes intelligent , funny, thoughtful, semi-meta, crime/thriller fiction. And sexy stuff to boot. Beinhart is one of those gems whose every book is well written, different, and just plain interesting. And he is a great story teller—did I mention that. Thi......more

Goodreads review by Kate

Excellent, and very different. Tony Casella is a retired PI. Somehow he gets caught up in a murder-for-hire scheme. Maybe he's bored, or maybe he believes the target really needs to die, but Tony wants to take care of business. Does he, though? How things happen, well, leave doubt.......more