Herbie’s Game
- Author Timothy Hallinan
- Narrator Peter Berkrot
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 15 July 2014
- Run Time 10 hours and 57 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Humorous fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction.
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What to expect
It's everyday business when Wattles, the San Fernando Valley's top "executive crook," sets up a hit. He establishes a chain of criminals to pass along the instructions and the money, thereby ensuring that the hitter doesn't know who hired him. Then one day Wattles finds his office safe open and a single item missing: the piece of paper listing the crooks in the chain. When people associated with the chain begin to pop up dead, the only person Wattles can turn to for help is Junior Bender, professional burglar and begrudging private eye for crooks.
But Junior already knows exactly who took Wattles' list; the signature is obvious. It was Herbie Mott, Junior's burglar mentor and second father—but when Junior seeks him out to discuss the matter, he finds him very unpleasantly murdered. Junior follows the links in the chain back toward the killer, and as he does, he learns disturbing things about Herbie's hidden past. Just how much of the life he's lived for the past twenty years has been of his own making, and how much of it was actually Herbie's game?
Critics Review
“Professional burglar Junior Bender has taken a case seeking an
incriminating cheat sheet that sequentially names the criminals (like a
chain letter) involved in a murder for hire…Devoted fans of Hallinan‘s rollicking LA-based series will grab up
number four.”
“Junior Bender takes on his most personal case yet in Hallinan’s rollicking
fourth mystery featuring the master safe—and joke—cracker…Hallinan injects what could be a stale revenge tale with his signature dry wit, making Bender a laconic antihero to admire.”
“Peter
Berkrot is a solid narrator with great
tough-guy voices…Herbie would approve.”
“A whirligig of a caper…Junior, drop by anytime. The valuables will be in plain sight.”
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