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Abbott is a terrific character: a real estate broker with backbone and ethics (both earned during an early, life-changing, three-year stretch in Leavenworth "for the sins of an overly meteoric yuppie career on Wall Street") but also with the basic need to make a living selling property in the increasingly hot market of Newbury. So when Harry King (a Kissinger figure minus the accent) demands his presence at his huge Fox Trot estate, Abbott hoofs on up to King's burgeoning megamansion, where two of Abbott's less savory cousins are working security at the gatehouse.
King wants Abbott not to sell his house but to help him enlarge it by buying an adjoining stretch of land belonging to deranged Vietnam War veteran Richard Butler, who not only spurns King's money but also--as a former explosives expert--has a habit of blowing things up when he becomes upset. Add to this the fact that Butler's equally violent and dysfunctional son, Dickie (another shady part of Abbott's past), has just been released from prison and you begin to see the shape of the exciting, often-hilarious kinds of things to come.
"A pleasant, effortless read.--Deadly Pleasures
"First published in the U.K. in 1997 and now extensively revised and updated, this assured third entry in Scotts Ben Abbott series (after HardScape and StoneDust) provides plenty of macho action.... a thoroughly good read." --Publishers Weekly
""First published in the U.K. in 1997 and now extensively revised and updated, this assured third entry in Scotts Ben Abbott series (after HardScape and StoneDust) provides plenty of macho action.... a thoroughly good read."" --Publishers Weekly
When Newbury's newest resident, ex-diplomat Harry King, contacts estate agent and part-time PI Ben Abbott, Ben gleefully calculates the commission on selling King's beautiful estate, Fox Trot. But King doesn't want Ben's selling expertise, he wants a mediator between him and his troublesome neighbour, ex-Vietnam vet Ronnie Butler. Before Ben can help resolve the issue, Butler's ex-con son, Dickie, turns up dead – blown to pieces by an explosion on King's land, and Ben finds himself drawn ever deeper into a crime that tests his loyalties to friends, family and lovers, on both sides of the tracks.
"This is a sophisticated, intelligent novel, among the best of American crime-writing."
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
"Smooth, sardonic, impeccably argued, immaculately written."
LITERARY REVIEW
"This novel is a delight! Those of us who've been clamouring for a new Ben Abbott will be ecstatic with his latest adventure among the folk of Newbury."
JEFFERY DEAVER
"'FrostLine' is the best book in a series that started strong and keeps getting better."
LAWRENCE BLOCK
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