Shakedown edition by Gerald Petievich Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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As a former Secret Service agent, Gerald Petievich brings to fiction the genuine, gritty authority of the insider. In Shakedown, his latest novel, he explores the sinister underworld of Las Vegas, where prostitutes, informers, hitmen and hustlers mix in the neon glare. One of its denizens is Eddie Sands, ex-con, a shakedown artist whose one weakness is that he's in love with a beautiful girl who happens to be a con artist supreme herself.
When Eddie decides to shake down a famous Hollywood star whose sex life could ruin his screen career, he sets off a chain of events that leads straight to the white-hot center of crime and punishment in Vegas, and brings down on himself the attentions of Tony Parisi, the mob's kingpin in Las Vegas, and FBI agent John Novak, a disillusioned law enforcement officer with bulldog tenacity.
Layer by layer Novak uncovers a plot which takes him to the highest level of law enforcement, even to the steps of the White House itself, as he gradually becomes aware that his own superiors may be betraying him and that his own career, even his life may be at stake.
Petievich has written a taut and captivating thriller, set in America's capital of sin and easy money - Las Vegas, a city where loyalty and love are the biggest gambles of all.
Shakedown edition by Gerald Petievich Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
Shakedown is a terrific novel about hustling in Las Vegas, in oh so many ways. It follows FBI Agent John Novak as he tracks down a set of leads that point to a Las Vegas kingpin. There's deceit and double dealing aplenty, copious amounts of blackmail, mob hits, and all the glamor of Las Vegas. Ironically for Petievich, there are 'bad guys' who are more appealing than some of the good guys, and a constant parade of willing suckers lined up to be fleeced in almost every conceivable way.More ambitiously plotted than his novels about Charles Carr, this one holds together quite well and is as good as To Die in Beverly Hills, which I loved. This is another book that is impossible to put down, but is a heck of a read. The last 50 pages defy any one to put them down.
Highly recommended.
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Shakedown edition by Gerald Petievich Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
done that, and it shows. His writing is lean and sharp. A fun read with no bs.
A boring cop thriller.
Shakedown by Gerald Petievich is a gritty, hardboiled crime story which unfolds partially in southern California but mainly in Las Vegas. John Novak is an FBI agent assigned to the Las Vegas office of the Organized Crime Task Force, a unit created to fight mob related crime using the resources and personnel of a number of federal agencies (US Customs, Treasury, FBI, etc.). Sounds like a pretty elite organization, right? Wrong.
At least in this novel, the Task Force is a dumping ground for malcontents, malingerers and burnout cases. But Novak is a fairly conscientious lawman whose mission to put a murderous crime boss behind bars brings him into contact with an amoral shakedown artist named Eddie Sands.
Eddie Sands is a former Las Vegas police detective who has gone over to the other side of the law. To make things even more interesting, his girlfriend Monica is an accomplished con artist in her own right.
This is a fast moving, economically written tale of cops and robbers which pulls no punches. Highly recommended to fans of hardboiled crime.
Tight. Fast moving. Interesting characters. Great descriptions of LA and Vegas. Petievich is great at putting us in the middle of the action.
Don't miss this guy! He can write crime and dialog as very few can. You won't put this one aside until it's finished. It's a bargain, only wish it was longer. It tells you what you're dealing with on both sides of the law.
Shakedown is an extremely interesting insider's view of a series of very clever exstorsions of the rich and famous in Hollywood and Vegas.
FBI Agent John Novak is a member of the Organized Crime Task Force in Los Vegas. The Task Force is a parking lot for losers, dead-enders and problem employees of one kind or another. The Justice Department lawyer who heads the Task Force is a major tool. But Novak has some pretty good investigative skills, and he wants to bring down the head of the Vegas Mob. His pursuit of the Mob Boss brings him into contact with some colorful characters who have pulled some neat capers. I can't say much more without giving too much away, but know that the writing is lean -- direct and to the point. And the story feels real. It has some guts and grime, not like one of those "written so it can become a TV movie on The Romance Network" police stories that they sometimes try to slop us with. If you are interested a gritty look at a less than perfect hero on the job in Vegas, this book is for you.
Shakedown is a terrific novel about hustling in Las Vegas, in oh so many ways. It follows FBI Agent John Novak as he tracks down a set of leads that point to a Las Vegas kingpin. There's deceit and double dealing aplenty, copious amounts of blackmail, mob hits, and all the glamor of Las Vegas. Ironically for Petievich, there are 'bad guys' who are more appealing than some of the good guys, and a constant parade of willing suckers lined up to be fleeced in almost every conceivable way.
More ambitiously plotted than his novels about Charles Carr, this one holds together quite well and is as good as To Die in Beverly Hills, which I loved. This is another book that is impossible to put down, but is a heck of a read. The last 50 pages defy any one to put them down.
Highly recommended.
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