The Bouncer
Aug 2018 · Joe the Bouncer Book 1 · Grove Press
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Introducing Joe the Bouncer in "a tour-de-force, ranging from underworld crime to a unique caper and a terrorist plot . . . an outstanding new voice" (Robert Crais, #1 New York Times bestselling author).
In David Gordon's diabolically imaginative thriller, The Bouncer, nothing and no one is as expected—from a vial of yellow fragrance to a gangster who moonlights in women's clothes.
Joe Brody is just your average Dostoevsky-reading, Harvard-expelled strip club bouncer who has a highly classified military history and whose best friend from Catholic school happens to be head mafioso Gio Caprisi. FBI agent Donna Zamora, the best shot in her class at Quantico, is a single mother stuck at a desk manning the hotline. Their storylines intersect over a tip from a cokehead that leads to a crackdown on Gio's strip joint in Queens and Joe's arrest—just one piece of a city-wide sweep aimed at flushing out anyone who might have a lead on the various terrorists whose photos are hanging on the wall under Most Wanted. Outside the jailhouse, the Fed and the bouncer lock eyes, as Gordon launches them both headlong into a nonstop plot that goes from back-road gun show intervention to high-stakes perfume heist and manages to touch everyone from the CIA to the Flushing Triads. Beneath it all lurks a sinister criminal mastermind whose manipulations could cause chaos on a massively violent scale.
"A brilliantly goofy caper novel in the grand tradition of Donald E. Westlake."— The New York Times Book Review
"[An] impressive crime novel . . . Gordon's sharply drawn supporting cast adds a nice balance to all the action."— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
In David Gordon's diabolically imaginative thriller, The Bouncer, nothing and no one is as expected—from a vial of yellow fragrance to a gangster who moonlights in women's clothes.
Joe Brody is just your average Dostoevsky-reading, Harvard-expelled strip club bouncer who has a highly classified military history and whose best friend from Catholic school happens to be head mafioso Gio Caprisi. FBI agent Donna Zamora, the best shot in her class at Quantico, is a single mother stuck at a desk manning the hotline. Their storylines intersect over a tip from a cokehead that leads to a crackdown on Gio's strip joint in Queens and Joe's arrest—just one piece of a city-wide sweep aimed at flushing out anyone who might have a lead on the various terrorists whose photos are hanging on the wall under Most Wanted. Outside the jailhouse, the Fed and the bouncer lock eyes, as Gordon launches them both headlong into a nonstop plot that goes from back-road gun show intervention to high-stakes perfume heist and manages to touch everyone from the CIA to the Flushing Triads. Beneath it all lurks a sinister criminal mastermind whose manipulations could cause chaos on a massively violent scale.
"A brilliantly goofy caper novel in the grand tradition of Donald E. Westlake."— The New York Times Book Review
"[An] impressive crime novel . . . Gordon's sharply drawn supporting cast adds a nice balance to all the action."— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Introducing Joe the Bouncer in "a tour-de-force, ranging from underworld crime to a unique caper and a terrorist plot . . . an outstanding new voice" (Robert Crais, #1 New York Times bestselling author).
In David Gordon's diabolically imaginative thriller, The Bouncer, nothing and no one is as ...
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Becky Baldridge
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August 6, 2018
I really tried with this one. The blurb caught my interest and it looked like an exciting read. The start of the story held true to that, but it didn't take long before my interest started to wane. By about the twenty percent mark, I was setting it aside for later. I kept picking it back up and I would get a bit further into it, but it reached the point that trying again felt more like a chore and that is certainly not what any reader wants in a book. Maybe this one just wasn't for me, but try as I might, I just couldn't connect with any of the characters and there was so much going on that after a while, I wasn't even sure whether or not the story was about Bouncer Joe. It felt a bit like throwing everything you can against a wall and hoping something sticks. Unfortunately, that just didn't work for me, and I finally gave up at about the sixty percent mark. Life's too short to have to work that hard at something meant to be entertaining.
About the author
David Gordon was born in New York City and later attended Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia, where he received an MA in English and Comparative Literature and an MFA in Writing. He has worked in film, fashion, publishing, and pornography. His first novel, The Serialist, won the VCU Cabell First Novel Award, was an Edgar Award finalist, and was made into a major motion picture in Japan. Gordon's work has also appeared in the Paris Review, the New York Times, Purple, and Fence, among other publications.
David Gordon was born in New York City and later attended Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia, where he received an MA in English and Comparative Literature and an MFA in Writing. He has worked in film, fashion, publishing, and pornography. His first novel, The Serialist, won the VCU Cabell First...
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