Michigan Roll
Paperback | English
By (author): Tom Kakonis
Kakonis can really write. In Waverly, he gives us a wonderful character in a brutal world, Tony Hillerman
Michigan Roll is fast, strong, harsh and beautiful, Donald Westlake
A wonderful novel - smart, light and mean, T. Jefferson Parker
Tom Kakonis is a master of the low-life novel. Nobody does it better. Ross Thomas
A cold-deck nightmare of high-stakes peril, Daniel Woodrell
...AND A NEW KIND OF HERO IN AN UNFORGETTABLE THRILLER
Ex-con, professional poker player Timothy Waverly travels to Traverse City, Michigan for a break...and falls into bed with a seductress named Midnight. She''''s an out-of-towner, too, there to rescue her self-destructive brother, who has stupidly ripped off a fortune in cocaine from a vicious Chicago mobster. Now she is being chased pursued by Shadow, a hemorrhoidal hitman who gleefully specializes in torture and rape, and Gleep, his muscle-bound henchman. The odds are stacked against her, but Waverly is a gambler who knows how to play them...
A sure narrative voice, a richly shaded hero and heroine, nightmare-vivid villains, and a plot paved with switchbacks and big curves add up to classy, if brutal, crime entertainment: this one cooks, Kirkus Reviews
Aptly compared to Elmore Leonard, Kakonis builds exquisite tension. Publishers Weekly
Original, brutal, nightmarish. Kakonis is a sharp new gambler in the literary crap game. He just takes the pot,
The New York Times