A Five Year Plan - Softcover

Kerr, Philip

3.22

390 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099257181 ISBN 13: 9780099257189

Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd, 1998

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Dave Delano, highly charismatic and intelligent thief and conman, has just served five years of a ten year sentence for robbery in Florida State Penitentiary. He decides to do one last job to see him right for the rest of his life, a job it took him the whole five years to think out- the Five Year Plan. It's the ultimate heist- robbing the carrier of the United Yacht Transport, a giant cargo ship which transports 20 luxury yachts, worth several millian dollars apiece, and carrying their owners' cash, jewels and works of art. Delano teams up with 'Naked' Tony Nudelli, the man behind just about all the big crime in Miami, who gives him the capital to pose as an owner of a luxury yacht. A bonus in the plan is that one of the yachts on the carrier is owned by drug boss Rocky Envigado, an enemy of 'Naked Tony'. But a very attractive female cop with the Miami DEA. Kate Furey, has been keeping Envigado under surveillance, and she has her own plan, which also involves chartering a yacht on the UYT carrier. Kate and Dave meet on board, and succumb very quickly to mutual attraction - and mutual suspicion. Coming up against this and other unexpected complications, will Delano's Five Year Pla

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Review:

Phillip Kerr has been called "Michael Crichton's smarter brother" due to his wide- ranging intelligence and technical knowledge. Dave Delano, the protagonist of this lively thriller, is an American who's educated himself in prison--serving a sentence for a manslaughter he didn't commit. Newly fluent in Russian, he's intrigued by the idea of redistributing wealth, particularly the Mafia's. His plan is to hijack a transatlantic transport ferry/yacht being used to smuggle drug money and to divert the dollars into his very own bank in the former Soviet Union. It all seems flawless until he meets another Grand Duke passenger who's looking to score: Kate Fury, a gorgeous FBI agent who's been tracking cocaine from Colombia to Miami to the European playgrounds of the rich and expecting the biggest collar of her career. What happens when they cross paths is the stuff of a funny, violent and oddly romantic caper. The plot twists fast enough to satisfy even die-hard Elmore Leonard fans and turns on double-dealing, false identities and misunderstood motives, without letting the humour get in the way of the action. --Jane Adams

Synopsis:

Dave Delano, charismatic and intelligent thief and conman, has just served five years in Florida State Penitentiary, where he thought of the heist to see him right for the rest of his life - robbing the carrier of the United Yacht Transport. But the beautiful Kate Furey, DEA, stands in his way.

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