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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Publication date
May 31, 2005
Pages
240
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780345464781
ISBN-10
0345464788
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.25 by 8 in.
Weight
0.44 lbs.
Original list price
$15.00
Amazon.com says people who bought this book also bought:
Six Bad Things | The Shotgun Rule | My Dead Body | Already Dead | Sleepless | Every Last Drop | The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death | Half the Blood of Brooklyn | A Dangerous Man
Six Bad Things | The Shotgun Rule | My Dead Body | Already Dead | Sleepless | Every Last Drop | The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death | Half the Blood of Brooklyn | A Dangerous Man
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Tending bar after a sports injury ends his baseball career, alcoholic Hank Thompson is beaten up by thugs while cat-sitting for a neighbor and discovers a hidden key to a locker stuffed with millions of dollars, a situation for which his innocence comes into question by the NYPD. A first novel. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Itâs three thousand miles from the green fields of glory, where Henry âcall me Hankâ Thompson once played California baseball, to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where the tenements are old, the rents are high, and the drunks are dirty. But now Hank is here, working as a bartender and taking care of a cat named Bud who is surely going to get him killed.
It begins when Hankâs neighbor, Russ, has to leave town in a rush and hands over Bud in a carrier. But it isnât until two Russians in tracksuits drag Hank over the bar at the joint where he works and beat him to a pulp that he starts to get the idea: Someone wants something from him. He just doesnât know what it is, where it is, or how to make them understand he doesnât have it.
Within twenty-four hours Hank is running over rooftops, swinging his old aluminum bat for the sweet spot of a guyâs head, playing hide and seek with the NYPD, riding the subway with a dead man at his side, and counting a whole lot of cash on a concrete floor.
All because of two cowboys, two Russian mafia men, and some of the weirdest goons ever assembled in one place. All because of Bud. All because once, in another life, in another world, the only thing Hank wanted was to take third baseâwithout getting caught.
From the Hardcover edition.
It begins when Hankâs neighbor, Russ, has to leave town in a rush and hands over Bud in a carrier. But it isnât until two Russians in tracksuits drag Hank over the bar at the joint where he works and beat him to a pulp that he starts to get the idea: Someone wants something from him. He just doesnât know what it is, where it is, or how to make them understand he doesnât have it.
Within twenty-four hours Hank is running over rooftops, swinging his old aluminum bat for the sweet spot of a guyâs head, playing hide and seek with the NYPD, riding the subway with a dead man at his side, and counting a whole lot of cash on a concrete floor.
All because of two cowboys, two Russian mafia men, and some of the weirdest goons ever assembled in one place. All because of Bud. All because once, in another life, in another world, the only thing Hank wanted was to take third baseâwithout getting caught.
From the Hardcover edition.
Editions
Hardcover
from Ballantine Books (April 1, 2004)
9780345464774 | details & prices | 256 pages | 6.50 × 9.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $21.95
About: Tending bar after a sports injury ends his baseball career, alcoholic Hank Thompson is beaten up by thugs while cat-sitting for a neighbor and discovers a hidden key to a locker stuffed with millions of dollars.
About: Tending bar after a sports injury ends his baseball career, alcoholic Hank Thompson is beaten up by thugs while cat-sitting for a neighbor and discovers a hidden key to a locker stuffed with millions of dollars.
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
Reprint edition from Ballantine Books (May 31, 2005)
9780345464781 | details & prices | 240 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.44 lbs | List price $15.00
About: Tending bar after a sports injury ends his baseball career, alcoholic Hank Thompson is beaten up by thugs while cat-sitting for a neighbor and discovers a hidden key to a locker stuffed with millions of dollars, a situation for which his innocence comes into question by the NYPD.
About: Tending bar after a sports injury ends his baseball career, alcoholic Hank Thompson is beaten up by thugs while cat-sitting for a neighbor and discovers a hidden key to a locker stuffed with millions of dollars, a situation for which his innocence comes into question by the NYPD.
CD/Spoken Word
With Christian Conn (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Chivers Sound Library (June 1, 2005)
9780792736677 | details & prices | 7.25 × 6.50 × 1.75 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $37.95
Cassette/Spoken Word
With Christian Conn (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Chivers Sound Library (June 1, 2005)
9780792736660 | details & prices | List price $54.95
About: It s three thousand miles from the fields of glory, where Henry Hank Thompson once played California baseball, to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where the tenements are old, the rents are high, and the drunks are dirty.
About: It s three thousand miles from the fields of glory, where Henry Hank Thompson once played California baseball, to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where the tenements are old, the rents are high, and the drunks are dirty.
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