Lou Berney discusses his novel "Gutshot Straight"
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
From: Steven Nester
Length: 00:26:33
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Nick Tosches discusses "Save the Last Dance for Satan"
(00:30:45)
From: Steven Nester
The author of seventeen books, Nick Tosches lives in New York City.
Tess Gerritsen discusses "The Silent Girl"
(00:28:22)
From: Steven Nester
A physician and the author of fourteen novels, Tess Gerritsen lives in Maine.
Jeff Abbott discusses "Adrenaline"
(00:28:34)
From: Steven Nester
Jeff Abbott is a writer living in Texas.
Elizabeth Brundage discusses "A Stranger Like You"
(00:25:03)
From: Steven Nester
Elizabeth Brundage is a writer who lives in upstate New York.
James Rollins talks about "The Devil Colony"
(00:24:29)
From: Steven Nester
James Rollins is a writer and veterinarian and lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Patrick DeWitt discusses The Sisters Brothers
(00:27:37)
From: Steven Nester
Patrick DeWitt is a novelist who lives in Oregon.
Mark Seal discusses "The Man in the Rockefeller Suit"
(00:29:17)
From: Steven Nester
A journalist for thirty-five years, Mark Seal is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair.
Ace Atkins discusses "Infamous"
(00:29:45)
From: Steven Nester
Ace Atkins is the author of eight novels. He lives on a farm in Mississippi.
William Dietrich discusses "The Barbary Pirates"
(00:30:54)
From: Steven Nester
William Dietrich is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, an
educator, and a novelist.
Hallie Ephron discusses "Come and Find Me'
(00:28:30)
From: Steven Nester
Hallie Ephron is a journalist and fiction writer living in New England.
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When Charles "Shake" Bouchon, professional wheel man, walks out of prison after a three-year stretch for grand theft auto, he's got only two problems: he's too nice a guy for the life he's led and not nice enough for any other.
So he says yes when he's asked to run a simple errand for his former boss and lover, Alexandra Ilandryan, the formidable pakhan of the Armenian mob in Los Angeles. All Shake has to do is deliver a package to Las Vegas and pick up a briefcase.
Only the package turns out to be a wholesome young housewife named Gina whose husband has run afoul of Dick Moby, aka "The Whale," an unpleasant four-hundred-pound Vegas strip-club owner. Shake hates to think what's going to happen to Gina when he delivers her to The Whale, so in a move that's as noble as it is boneheaded, he decides to set her free.
