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"The story stars Max Fisher, a wealthy businessman who wants to have his wife murdered so he could sleep with his beautiful secretary, Angela Petrakos. Max gets introduced to Angela's cousin Dillion also-known-as "Popeye", a former IRA hitman, in a Manhattan pizza parlor.
Max is happy that he's found the right man for the job. Dillion does the job and kills Max's wife Deirdre and his niece. Max tries his best to feign grief but as soon as he can he's having sex with Angela. Into the picture comes Bobby Rosa, a ex-con in a wheel chair who likes to take pictures. Rosa happens to have pictures of Max and Angela having sex. At the same time, policeman Kenneth Simmons, the detective in charge of the case of Max's wife has a strong suspicion that Max was in on the whole deal. Max's life starts to fall apart when everyone is double crossing everyone and Kenneth Simmons death sends an even more eager policeman, Detective Ortiz to make Max crack and confess to the murders.
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Bobby Blades, Resident Scholar
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" This novel is a collaboration between crime fiction writers.They are writting the novel in the style of the hard boiled detective novels of years gone by. But they are setting the story during the present day.
Wealthy, successful New York City business owner Max Fisher finds himself in a delightfully familiar scenario: he wants to get rid of his nagging wife so he can take up with his sexy secretary, Angela Petrakos. When Angela introduces Max to Dillon (who she codenames Popeye), a former IRA hit man, Max thinks he's found his man; what Max doesn't know is that Dillon is already Angela's man—and the two plan to double-cross Max as soon as it becomes profitable.
Dillon, however, proves to be less a professional than a psychotic: he'd just as soon kill "for the price of a pint" as he would for Max's wealth.
Another wrinkle in the plot is wheelchair-bound Bobby Rosa, an ex-con with a taste for lewd photography, guns and blackmail. As it tends to do, the murderous plot goes awry.
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yosef shapiro, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Book
descript. of violence and chases - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 10%
Tone of story
- Dry-cynical
Time/era of story:
- present (2000-2010)
Kid or adult book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Crime Thriller
Yes
Crime plotlets:
- seduction/blackmail
General Crime (including known murderer)
Yes
Who's the criminal enemy here?
- crazed boyfriend/girlfriend/spouse
Main Character
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- business executive
Age:
- 40's-50's
How much violence does he/she use?
- a little
Ethnicity/Race
- White/American
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
- quite fatty
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- killer
- criminal
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a moderate amount
Motive of antagonist
- money/treasure
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Dumb
- Average intelligence
Physique
- very athletic
- missing body parts/abilities
Setting
United States
Yes
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
- very gorey references to deaths/dead bodies and torture
How many deaths?
- 3-4
Sex
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript of kissing
- actual description of sex
- descript. of male nudity
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
Unusual form of death?
Yes
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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