David Levien. (2011). Thirteen Million Dollar Pop: A Frank Behr Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

David Levien. 2011. Thirteen Million Dollar Pop: A Frank Behr Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

David Levien, Thirteen Million Dollar Pop: A Frank Behr Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011.

David Levien. Thirteen Million Dollar Pop: A Frank Behr Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011.

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   • bioText: DAVID LEVIEN, author of Where the Dead Lay and City of the Sun, has been nominated for the Edgar, Hammett, and Shamus awards, and is also a screenwriter and director (including co-director of Solitary Man (2009) starring Michael Douglas). He lives in Connecticut. 13 Million Dollar Pop is his third Frank Behr novel—and is on sale August 2011.
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The acclaimed author of City of the Sun returns with a relentlessly taut new novel featuring enigmatic private investigator Frank Behr and the American heartland setting that has won David Levien critical raves.
In an Indianapolis underground parking structure, Frank Behr is on an executive protection detail for Bernard “Bernie Cool” Kolodnik, a hard-driving business mogul on the verge of making a move into big-time Indiana politics. Behr is working for an exclusive investigation company, and it’s an uncomfortable fit, both literally and philosophi­cally. The uneasy stability is quickly rocked by a burst of automatic weapons fire as an attempt is made on the promi­nent client, and Behr manages to protect him and repel the attackers. Though Behr is celebrated for his heroism, he can’t help but investigate what happened in that garage—and why the Indianapolis cops seem to be burying the incident.
As David Levien has masterfully done in his previous nov­els, he weaves a crime story that is teeming with real charac­ters and electric energy—centered on the brooding psyche of Frank Behr. Thirteen Million Dollar Pop is unyieldingly compelling and will give readers yet another reason to enlist with this superbly talented writer.

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   • source: Fredericksburg Free-Lance Star
   • content: "If you take heart medicine, you'll want to consult with a doctor before reading this pulse-quickening thriller from David Levien....With his machete-sharp wit, Levien paints a vivid picture of what happens when power lands in the hands of the wrong people. Not surprisingly, his characters are alive with energy, and his rapid-fire plot is hunkered in realism. All in all, [13 Million Dollar Pop] is a thunderous book that shines a light on dirty politics and the repercussions of getting caught in the crossfire. Bullet for bullet, this is one explosive read."
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   • content: "Levien is the new must-read thriller writer."
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     June 27, 2011
     At the start of Levien's less than compelling third Frank Behr novel (after Where the Dead Lay), the Indianapolis PI and a wealthy businessman client, Bernard Kolodnik, are nearly killed in a parking garage gunfight. Frank is eager to find the shooter, but both Kolodnik and Frank's bosses at the Caro Group, a security company that's been keeping him steadily employed, tell him to let it go, particularly after the governor nominates Kolodnik to fill a recently vacated U.S. Senate seat. Never one to follow orders, Frank begins digging and discovers Kolodnik's connection to a recent real estate project—a combination horse track and casino known as a "racino"—that's hemorrhaging money. Everyone involved is slowly sinking under the million-dollar losses, but Kolodnik manages to somehow keep his hands clean. Meanwhile, a Welsh hit man is prowling the streets, waiting for the chance to finish what the parking lot shooter started. Despite the violence around him, Levien's laconic hero remains oddly unemotional.

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     June 15, 2011
     

     Indianapolis ex-cop Frank Behr (Where the Dead Lay, 2009, etc.) gets dropped into the middle of a case that promises to end his days as a bodyguard as well.

     Frank never thought he was cut out for executive protection. The work is servile, and the Caro Group doesn't pay him well enough to compensate for his issues with authority. But one problem with guarding local developer (and now Senator-designate) Bernard Kolodnik never occurred to him: He might get shot at. The attack comes in a parking garage, and although Behr saves Bernie Cool's life and earns his gratitude, his efforts on behalf of his agency and their client don't get him any traction when he tries to find out who fired the shots and why. In fact, both Karl Potempa, the head of Caro's Indianapolis office, and Shugie Saunders, Bernie's political consultant, are actively thwarting the investigation he's running in defiance of Potempa's command (backed up by Lt. Gary Breslau of the Indianapolis police) to lay off. As Frank staggers along on his own, the forces who wanted Bernie dead bring in Welsh cleanup hitter Wadsworth Dwyer, who in turn calls on Rickie Powell, a good man with an axe, to cauterize the loose ends before Behr can trace them to the top. But even after Caro fires him, Behr turns out to have reinforcements of his own, especially after a horrifying call on Susan Durrant, his pregnant girlfriend, drags Indianapolis cop Eddie Decker, an ex–USMC sniper, into the fray.

     A professional-grade actioner that offers compelling evidence for Rickie's dictum: "When pros lock up, everyone gets hurt."

     (COPYRIGHT (2011) KIRKUS REVIEWS/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

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     March 1, 2011
     

     Hired to protect prominent businessman-turned-political candidate Bernard "Bernie Cool" Kolodnik, private investigator Frank Behr proves his worth by saving Kolodnik when an attempt is made on his life. But he's really not sure what happened when those automatic weapons started blazing, and he's even more suspicious when the police hush up the incident. Levien has Edgar and Shamus nominations to his credit and seems to be building. Thriller fans should definitely investigate.

     Copyright 2011 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     July 1, 2011
     In Levien's latest, fallout from the Great Recession is affecting almost everyone. Indianapolis' first racino, a combination horse-race track and casino, is going under; Frank Behr, soon to be a father, has very reluctantly left his lone-wolf PI work for a corporate security agency. And even the contract killer who tries to kill the business tycoon Behr is guarding has scrimped, working solo in order to cut costs. Investigation of the unsuccessful attack is squelched, and Behr goes off the corporate reservation to learn why, leading him toward a confrontation with a skilled and vicious ex-mercenary determined to secure his retirement with one more big payday. Levien's first Behr novel (City of the Sun, 2008) was first-rate. His second, Where the Dead Lay (2009), was flawed, but this third effort is a page-turner. The financial desperation that fuels the characters is vivid and plausible. The plot is appropriately convoluted. The body count is respectable, and the result is a ripping-good thriller.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2011, American Library Association.)

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In an Indianapolis underground parking structure, Frank Behr is on an executive protection detail for Bernard “Bernie Cool” Kolodnik, a hard-driving business mogul on the verge of making a move into big-time Indiana politics. Behr is working for an exclusive investigation company, and it’s an uncomfortable fit, both literally and philosophi­cally. The uneasy stability is quickly rocked by a burst of automatic weapons fire as an attempt is made on the promi­nent client, and Behr manages to protect him and repel the attackers. Though Behr is celebrated for his heroism, he can’t help but investigate what happened in that garage—and why the Indianapolis cops seem to be burying the incident.
As David Levien has...

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