Head Wounds - Hardcover

Knopf, Chris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1579621651 ISBN 13: 9781579621650

Publisher: Permanent Pr Pub Co, 2008

Synopsis

Sam Acquillo can hide in his wind-swept waterfront cottage all he wants. The demons of his past are going to find him. Worse, they’ve teamed up with some pretty nasty demons of the present, including a very determined Chief of Police whose top detective has Sam caught in the cross hairs. Part-time carpenter, full-time drinker and co-conspirator with an existential mutt named Eddie Van Halen, Sam tries to lead the simple life. But as always, fate intervenes, this time in the form of Robbie Milhouser, local builder and blundering bully who shares at least one thing with Sam—an irresistible attraction to the beautiful Amanda Anselma. Peal back the glitz and glory of the fabled Hamptons and you’ll find a beautiful place filled with ugly secrets. This is Sam Acquillo’s world. Moving effortlessly across the social divide with wry pal Jackie Swaitkowski and rich guy Burton Lewis, the ex-boxer, ex-corporate infighter seems doomed to straddle the thin red line between envy and love, hate and forgiveness, goodness and greed. And sometimes life and death. Only this time, the life at stake is his own.

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Review:

This is Knopf's superb third Hamptons mystery (after 'The Last Refuge' and 'Two Time' ). How can you go wrong with a philosophising hero who drinks Absolut, reads Kant, drives a '67 Grand Prix and has a dog named Eddie Van Halen? Publishers Weekly, starred review

About the Author:

Head Wounds is CHRIS KNOPF’s third Sam Aquillo novel, The Last Refuge and Two Time preceding. Among the many plaudits for The Last Refuge was this one in Publishers Weekly: “There's a definite whiff of Elmore Leonard here, particularly in the snappy dialogue and the colorful, oddball characters, including a gay billionaire.” Equally ecstatic was their assessment of Two Time, which they listed as among the “Best 100 Books of 2006”: “Strong plotting, solid characters and hard-boiled dialogue worthy of Elmore Leonard or John D. MacDonald will make this a beach read that you won't be able to put down even under threat of sunburn.” Chris is a principal of Mintz & Hoke, a marketing communications agency. Occasional copywriter and cabinet maker, he lives with his wife, Mary Farrell, and their Wheaten Terrier Samuel Beckett in Connecticut and in Southampton, Long Island.

About this edition

• Publisher: Permanent Pr Pub Co
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1579621651
• ISBN 13: 9781579621650
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 310