Money for Nothing
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (935 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1415958173 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 506 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
American Everyman, young, ambitious, decent, honorable husband and father, has been receiving a check for $1,000 once a month from an unknown benefactor for seven years. Westlake is the undisputed master of the caper genre--although Money for Nothing may not be as deviously convoluted or sidesplittingly comic as some of his earlier novels (The Ax, Put a Lid On It), it's well worth the reader's attention and appreciation. Unbeknownst to our hapless hero, he's been a "sleeper agent" whose paymaster has awakened him just in time
When 27-year-old Josh Redmont first received the unexpected cheque for a thousand dollars from an organization called United States Agent he was young, single and poor. Here is an ordinary man trying to protect his family and survive a carnival ride through a modern hell.. Unable to locate his mysterious benefactor, Josh starts to feel that somehow everything must be all right when the cheque clears. Now married, with a two-year-old son and a steady job, his monthly cheques have become a mere background to his life. And the next. And the next one a month later. Until, one day, a stranger sits next to him on a bench and says, 'You are now active.' So begins Josh's descent into absurdity and fear
Money is the root of all evil! R. Manning Stick with Westlake if you love comedy, mysteries or novels noir. His "Parker" series itself is an unequaled classic.Donald E. Westlake aka Richard Stark, Tucker Coe, Curt Clark et all, has written another good comic mystery. While MONEY FOR NOTHING is not as goofy or as humorous as his excellent "Dort. "Another great one from a master" according to mrliteral. Money for Nothing begins with college student Josh Redmont receiving a check for $1000. The few clues he has about who gave it to him lead nowhere, and the following month he gets another check in the mail. This continues for years, as Josh gets married, has a kid and establishes a career; by this poin. Don't Worry, We'll Think of Something Westlake is one of the great names in genre fiction (Actually, he's several of the great names in genre fiction, but that's another discussion, entirely), and a book by him is sure to be interesting, enticing, and eminently readable, at the very least. But, every so often, he produces something that re