The Death and Life of Bobby Z

Zusatztext "Packs the wallop of a semiautomatic weapon."– Newsday “Fast-paced . . . full of explosive action and deliciously evil characters.”– Chicago Tribune "One of the funniest and fastest-moving novels in recent years. The action is relentless! the characters wild." – San Diego Union-Tribune "The plot unfolds at the speed of sound. . . . As much fun as a barrel of monkeys--all of them armed." – Men's Journal Informationen zum Autor Bestselling author Don Winslow has written nineteen books and numerous short stories, as well as writing for television and film. He has received the Raymond Chandler Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award.  A former private investigator and trial consultant, Winslow lives in Southern California. Klappentext FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CARTEL. When Tim Kearney! a small-time criminal! slits the throat of a Hell's Angel and draws a life sentence in a prison full of gang members! he knows he's pretty much a dead man. That's until the DEA makes Kearney an offer: impersonate the late! legendary dope smuggler Bobby Z so that the agency can trade him for one of their own! who was captured by a Mexican drug kingpin. Knowing his chances of survival are a little better than in prison! Kearney accepts! and he winds up in the middle of a desert at the notorious drug lord's lavish compound. To his surprise he meets Bobby Z's old flame! Elizabeth! and her son. At first! it's a short vacation by the pool! but when things turn bloody! the three of them begin the most desperate flight of their lives! with drug lords! bikers! Indians! and cops furiously chasing after them. Whether he pulls it off! whether he can keep the kid and the girl and his life! makes this compelling novel a hilarious! fast-paced thriller about a con caught in a devil's bargain. 1.Here's how Tim Kearney gets to be the legendary Bobby Z.How Tim Kearney gets to be Bobby Z is that he sharpens a license plate to a razor's edge and draws it across the throat of a humongous Hell's Angel named Stinkdog, making Stinkdog instantly dead and a DEA agent named Tad Cruzsa instantly happy."That'll make him a lot easier to persuade," Gruzsa says when he hears about it, meaning Kearney, of course, because Stinkdog is beyond persuasion by that point.Gruzsa is right. Not only does the murder rap make Tim Kearney a three-time loser, but killing a Hell's Angel also makes him a dead man on any prison yard in California, so "life without possibility of parole" really means "life without possibility of life" once Tim gets back into the general prison population.Not that Tim wanted to kill Stinkdog. He didn't. It's just that Stinkdog came to him on the yard and told him to join the Aryan Brotherhood "or else," and Tim said "else," and that's when Tim knew that he'd better hone that license plate to a surgical edge.The California Corrections Department isn't all that thrilled, although a few of its officials admit to mixed feelings over Stinkdog's demise. What pisses them off is that Tim used the supposed tool of his rehabilitation--honest work making license plates--to commit premeditated murder inside the correctional facility at San Quentin."It wasn't murder," Tim tells his court-appointed public defender. "It was self-defense.""You walked up to him on the yard, took a sharpened license plate out of your sweatshirt and slashed his throat," the lawyer reminds him. "And you planned it.""Carefully," Tim agrees. Stinkdog had about ten inches and a hundred and fifty pounds on him. Used to, anyway. Lying dead on a gurney he is considerably shorter than Tim. And much slower."That makes it murder," the lawyer says."Self-defense," Tim insists.He doesn't expect the young lawyer or the justice system to appreciate the subtle difference between a preemptive strike and premeditated murder. But Stinkdog had given Tim a choice: ...

Product details

• Authors: Don Winslow
• Publisher: Vintage USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 12.09.2006
• EAN: 9780307275349
• ISBN: 978-0-307-27534-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 205 mm x 15 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage crime/Black Lizard
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense