Counterplot - Hardcover

Macneill, Alistair

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 075051647X ISBN 13: 9780750516471

Publisher: Magna Large Print Books, 2001

Synopsis

Frankie Genno is a petty criminal whose dreams of the big-time are ruined when a simple bank robbery becomes a double-murder. Anne is the junkie girlfriend responsible for putting him away. When, years later, her WITSEC contact turns up dead, she knows Frankie is back and looking for revenge.

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Review

Counterplot, Alistair MacNeill's most unusual novel yet, is atmospherically set in Chicago's underworld. The strength of this vividly characterised piece is a forcefully created central protagonist, Frankie Genno, a penny-ante criminal who deals in drugs and mixes with some of the big boys in Chicago's crime scene. But he has ideas above his station: Frankie believes that a bank raid will put him in the city's upper crime echelons. However, his girlfriend Anne (a coke addict like Frankie) turns him in and he winds up imprisoned--after committing several murders. Anne changes her name and looks, then relocates to another city under the aegis of the Witness Protection Programme. This is a necessary move considering that Frankie breaks out of jail and tracks her down with bloody revenge on his mind. The authenticity of the dialogue and kinetic plot make Counterplot a gritty and compelling read, reminiscent of some of the best pulp writing of the Forties. --Barry Forshaw

Book Description

A thriller of revenge set in Chicago's underworld

Edition details

• Publisher: Magna Large Print Books
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 075051647X
• ISBN 13: 9780750516471
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400