Against the Law: A Joe the Bouncer Novel
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A Special Forces agent turned strip club bouncer with a side hustle as a fixer for the New York mob seeks the source of a new brand of heroin flooding the city streets
Joe is an ex-Special Forces operative with a bad case of PTSD and some substance abuse issues, trying to rebuild a simple life as a strip club bouncer living with his grandmother in Queens. But this simple life is constantly complicated by the fact that, at the invitation of a childhood friend, now a Mafia boss, Joe also moonlights as a fixer for the most powerful crime families in town.
In his newest assignment, Joe is sent to take out a shadowy figure named Zahir, the faceless name behind White Angel, a powerful new brand of heroin invading the mob's territories and threatening their sales. Then Joe discovers a link between Zahir and a shady group of private military contractors, and the stakes of his mission become increasingly deadly.
Soon the Five Boroughs are on the verge of an all-out drug war, pitting Joe and the crime world's most infamous talents against a ruthless clan of professional killers. Joe's only chance to calm the violence is to intercept the newest shipment of Zahir's product—if his skills as a master thief prove up to the task.
A comic caper with heists, car chases, and shoot-outs aplenty, Against the Law is Joe the Bouncer's most exciting outing to date, as humorous as it is thrilling. Gordon's memorable characters, tight plotting, and breathless action sequences make this a standout in the pantheon of the New York crime novel, certain to appeal to fans of authors such as Donald E. Westlake and Elmore Leonard.
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David Gordon. (2021). Against the Law: A Joe the Bouncer Novel. Penzler Publishers.
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A Special Forces agent turned strip club bouncer with a side hustle as a fixer for the New York mob seeks the source of a new brand of heroin flooding the city streets
Joe is an ex-Special Forces operative with a bad case of PTSD and some substance abuse issues, trying to rebuild a simple life as a strip club bouncer living with his grandmother in Queens. But this simple life is constantly complicated by the fact that, at the invitation of a childhood friend, now a Mafia boss, Joe also moonlights as a fixer for the most powerful crime families in town.
In his newest assignment, Joe is sent to take out a shadowy figure named Zahir, the faceless name behind White Angel, a powerful new brand of heroin invading the mob's territories and threatening their sales. Then Joe discovers a link between Zahir and a shady group of private military contractors, and the stakes of his mission become increasingly deadly.
Soon the Five Boroughs are on the verge of an all-out drug war, pitting Joe and the crime world's most infamous talents against a ruthless clan of professional killers. Joe's only chance to calm the violence is to intercept the newest shipment of Zahir's product—if his skills as a master thief prove up to the task.
A comic caper with heists, car chases, and shoot-outs aplenty, Against the Law is Joe the Bouncer's most exciting outing to date, as humorous as it is thrilling. Gordon's memorable characters, tight plotting, and breathless action sequences make this a standout in the pantheon of the New York crime novel, certain to appeal to fans of authors such as Donald E. Westlake and Elmore Leonard.
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- content: This one has everything, from a car chase that makes what Steve McQueen does with that Mustang in Bullitt seem like a Sunday drive, to a showdown in a Russian bathhouse that is part Marx Brothers and part Kill Bill. For anyone with a taste for blood-spattered comic capers featuring characters who vault off the page, Against the Law is an exquisite fever dream in Technicolor.
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- content: Everyone involved is heavily armed, ruthless, and possessed of an irresistibly off-kilter sense of humor.
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- source: Paris Review, on White Tiger on Snow Mountain
- content: Gordon's sentences are crisp and often jarring. His plots unspool in strange, sometimes disturbing ways . . . enjoy the disorientation and to trust that you're in the hands of an earnest storyteller.
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- content: Gordon has a knack for twisty story lines, nonstop action, and over-the-top sequences.
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- content: David Gordon brings an outstanding new voice to the contemporary crime novel.
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- content: Feels like a return to some of the best American crime fiction of the 60s, 70s and 80s. The emphasis is on entertainment in a way that I think the likes of Donald Westlake would approve of.
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March 22, 2021
Edgar finalist Gordon’s audacious third novel featuring strip club bouncer Joe Brody (after 2019’s The Hard Stuff) takes Brody to Afghanistan, where he once suffered mental and physical trauma while serving as a U.S. Special Forces operative. In Helmand Province, Brody awaits a heroin deal to be completed so that he can gun down the person he expects will steal the drugs, Zahir the Shadow, who has been hijacking narcotics and using them to fund terror attacks. Zahir’s identity proves a surprise, but that reveal is merely the prologue to a race to avert a mass casualty event in Manhattan, which again partners Brody with attractive FBI agent Donna Zamora, who’s emotionally entangled with him. Some readers may not care for Brody’s insouciant attitude. “Now assassinating drug lords with terrorist ties was more like a hobby, something he did part-time when he wasn’t busy with his regular gig, as a bouncer at a strip club in Queens.” This one’s for those who don’t require realism in their thrillers.
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His latest mission takes Joe the Bouncer back to the last place in the world he wants to visit. But he won't roost there, or anywhere else, for very long at all. Before he was anointed sheriff of New York's crime families, "911 for people who don't call the cops," strip-club bouncer Joe Brody put in his time with special forces in Afghanistan, where he left a good bit of his physical and mental well-being behind. So he's not eager to pursue the Helmand bandit king Zahir al Zilli, aka Zahir the Shadow, who's been hijacking heroin shipments those New York families have every right to. But money talks, and half a million dollars demands that attention must be paid, especially when it's bumped up to $2 million. So Joe heads off to Afghanistan, where he's happy to find his thieving friend Yelena Noylaskya, who's been missing since his last adventure in The Hard Stuff (2019). The reunited pair soon discover that Zahir's only a front for a far more powerful enemy: the Wildwater Corporation, whose founding CEO, Bob Richards, has dreams of world domination that only begin with intercepted shipments of White Angel. Cobbling together a motley crew that draws from the ranks of the FBI and the New York families, Joe and Yelena return home to challenge a cadre of villains that include rogue military contractor Rick Toomey, sociopathic assassin Victoria St. Smythe, and of course the Wildwater staff. Everyone involved is heavily armed, ruthless, and possessed of an irresistibly off-kilter sense of humor. Fans will know not to get too attached to supporting characters with half-lives shorter than that of fissionable uranium, which ends up making an appearance as well. Supercharged intrigue for readers who'd rather get swept off their feet than think too hard about what's going on.COPYRIGHT(2021) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Charismatic crook Joe Brody, strip-club bouncer and Mob fixer, is the go-to guy when New York capo Gio Caprisi needs help with something outside the wheelhouse of your garden-variety thug. This time Gio sends Joe to Afghanistan, where his stint as a Special Forces operative in the employ of an off-the-books government agency left him with a world-class case of PTSD. His target is a terrorist known as Zahir, who's been stealing the Mob's heroin. Teamed again with the mercurial Yelena Noylaskya, Joe nabs some purloined heroin, but Zahir, the Scarlet Pimpernel of terrorists, slips through his grasp. Back in New York, the trail leads to a group of profit-hungry mercenaries--""greedy pigs,"" says Yelena, ""who don't have the courage to be real outlaws."" Maybe, but one of their soldiers has gone rogue from his plenty-rogue bosses and is wandering Manhattan with a nuclear device in hand. Enter FBI agent Donna Zamora, Joe's nemesis/crush, for another round of flirting and bad-guy snaring. This one has everything, from a car chase that makes what Steve McQueen does with that Mustang in Bullitt seem like a Sunday drive, to a showdown in a Russian bathhouse that is part Marx Brothers and part Kill Bill. For anyone with a taste for blood-spattered comic capers featuring characters who vault off the page, Against the Law is an exquisite fever dream in Technicolor.COPYRIGHT(2021) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Joe is an ex-Special Forces operative with a bad case of PTSD and some substance abuse issues, trying to rebuild a simple life as a strip club bouncer living with his grandmother in Queens. But this simple life is constantly complicated by the fact that, at the invitation of a childhood friend, now a Mafia boss, Joe also moonlights as a fixer for the most powerful crime families in town.
In his newest assignment, Joe is sent to take out a shadowy figure named Zahir, the faceless name behind White Angel, a powerful new brand of heroin invading the mob's territories and threatening their sales. Then Joe discovers a link between Zahir and a shady group of private military contractors, and the stakes of his mission become increasingly deadly.
Soon the Five Boroughs are on the...
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