{"product_id":"9781882376728","title":"Michigan Roll","description":"THE MASTERS OF CRIME FICTION BET ON TOM KAKONIS…\u003cp\u003e“Kakonis can really write. In Waverly, he gives us a wonderful character in a brutal world,” Tony Hillerman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Michigan Roll is fast, strong, harsh and beautiful,” Donald Westlake\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A wonderful novel – smart, light and mean,” T. Jefferson Parker\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Tom Kakonis is a master of the low-life novel. Nobody does it better.\" Ross Thomas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A cold-deck nightmare of high-stakes peril,” Daniel Woodrell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e…AND A NEW KIND OF HERO IN AN UNFORGETTABLE THRILLER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEx-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…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Aptly compared to Elmore Leonard, Kakonis builds exquisite tension.\" Publishers Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Original, brutal, nightmarish. Kakonis is a sharp new gambler in the literary crap game. He just takes the pot,”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thunder Bay Press MI","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057835852016,"sku":"9781882376728","price":9.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781882376728_p0.jpg?v=1763604222","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781882376728","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}