Criss Cross
Paperback | English
By (author): Tom Kakonis
Chicago Tribune
CRISS CROSS
It''''s a bone-chilling winter in Grand Rapids. Ex-cop Mitch Morse is stuck in a dreary, dead-end job at a discount store so he can''''t resist when a smoldering, sexy cashier Starla Hudek asks him to join a gang of down-to-their-last-chance killers and criminals ready to do whatever it takes to pull off the score of a lifetime on Christmas Eve.
Stylishly flamboyant...Kakonis has honed his skills at locking violent characters into harrowing, if often hilarious, straits. - New York Times
It begins as an audacious armored car heist...but then things go ho-ho-horribly wrong, and the lust, greed, and scheming spirals out of control, the criss-crossing loyalties and betrayals tightening like a noose around Mitch''''s neck.
Tom Kakonis, a poet of raunch, brings to life the misfits and desperate dreamers who inhabit the shadowy side of a ''''vanilla milkshake town''''...Deft plotting, in-depth characterization and devilish humor add up to a riveting read. - Publisher''''s Weekly.
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