The Deadly Kiss-Off - by Paul Di Filippo (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Glen and Stan, the Odd Couple of scamdom, are back from their Big Get-Even adventure with another get-rich-quick-or-go-down-in-flames scheme. They stumble upon a lone scientist and his half-genius, half-addlepated invention, which seems to promise a big payoff if they can dupe the right buyers. But infidelity, gangsters, foreign governments, and their own greed offer stumbling blocks galore.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Glen and Stan, the Odd Couple of scamdom, are back from their <i>Big Get-Even</i> adventure with another get-rich-quick-or-go-down-in-flames scheme.</p><p>As part of their trafficking in counterfeit merch, they are looking to turn a few pallets of Grade Z computer chips into some military hardware sure to interest dictators and despots and drug lords around the globe. Bankrolled by a greedy local crime boss, they hope to promote a half-genius, half-addlepated invention from a naive and principled inventor into a bonanza. But no one ever counts on complications arising from a wayward wife, some sexy Eurotrash go-betweens, and a lonely entrepreneurial girlfriend who finds her native tropical isle conducive to a troublesome loosening of morals. Add in a most unconventional explosives expert, and you have a caper half hilarious, half deadly, and 100 percent entertaining.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"<i>The Big Get-Even</i> introduced us to Glen and Stan, two con men with oversized ambitions. The prolific author now provides us with an action-packed sequel, <i>The Deadly Kiss-Off</i>, about a dubious invention and the power-grab that follows."</p>-- "East Side Monthly"<br><br><p>"Gangsters and canoodling bombshells, goodhearted galoots, sinister gadgets, and an African giant pouched rat can add up to only one thing: Glen and Stan are back in this new hardboiled thriller with a heart by Paul Di Filippo. Do yourself a favor: make with the feet to your favorite joint and scam a couple of hours with <i>The Deadly Kiss-Off</i>, the funniest caper to come down the pike this year."</p>-- "Elizabeth Hand, Nebula Award-winning author of Hard Light and Wylding Hall"<br><br><p>"Glen and Stan, the scammers from Di Filippo's fine <i>The Big Get-Even</i> are with us again, looking to realize what narrator Glen aptly calls 'dreams of quick, unearned wealth'...This deserves a recommendation for the fine writing and the intriguing look into the mechanics of big-deal thievery."</p>-- "Booklist"<br><br><p>"Like its predecessor <i>The Big Get-Even</i>, the opening novel in the series, <i>The Deadly Kiss-Off</i> is a wild, forceful, and fierce expedition through the low-life lived as the high-life. The author's crew of miscreants, like Westlake's Dortmunder Gang, is lovable and pitiable, the grand scheme of this novel burns as a plan gone agley. Paul Di Filippo fills Westlake's missing place in the suspense canon triumphantly."</p>-- "Barry N. Malzberg"<br><br><p>"Narrator Keith Szarabajka has a way with dialogue that draws listeners into the story, making them worry about the main characters, even if they have slipped closer to being villains. Szarabajka's foreign accents sound genuine as Glen shows he still has a bit of a conscience while plotting to defraud a South American enforcer in a scheme financed by a murderous mob boss."</p>-- "AudioFile"<br>
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