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THE DEAL GOES DOWN

Larry Beinhart

A legendary, Edgar-Awarding winning writer returns, and so does his legendary detective, with a gripping thriller about marital discord, contract killing, off-piste skiing and the deep state...

Ex-private eye Tony Casella lives in the Catskill mountains, a lonely old tough guy whose body can no longer do what it once did. His wife and son are dead; his daughter barely talks to him; his bank is in the process of foreclosing on his home. But a chance encounter with a rich young woman on a train changes everything. He is hired to take care of her superrich, sexual predator husband. That job leads to others and he joins a small start-up whose mission is to save women from abusive marriages. Provided their spouses are in the top 0.01%. It's a luxury service destined to make great profits. Tony's problems seem to be over, but are they? An old, angry associate is determined to get his cut of Tony's earnings, murky government agents start to tail him, and when he is sent to the Austrian alps to kill a Russian oligarch and rescue his American wife, all hell breaks loose... Packed with action The Deal Goes Down is an unforgettable portrait of a Lion in Winter who still has a few tricks up his sleeve, from a writer garlanded with awards and critical acclaim and whose novel American Hero was made into the classic film, Wag the Dog. Larry Beinhart is best known as the author of Wag the Dog (originally published as American Hero) on which the film starring Robert DeNiro, Dustin Hoffman, Willie Nelson and Woody Harrelson was based. His No One Rides for Free (1986) received the 1987 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. Beinhart spent two years in Oxford, England, where he was the Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellow at Wadham College. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, and the Chicago Tribune. Beinhart worked for AlJazeera English, on the TV news magazine show Empire as a Writer/Producer/Director. He resides in Woodstock, New York.

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Book Published 2022-08-09 by Melville House

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Larry Beinhart is a must read for anyone who likes intelligent, funny, thoughtful, semi-meta, crime/thriller fiction. And sexy stuff to boot. Beinhart is one of those gems whose every book is well written, different, and just plain interesting. And he is a great storytellerdid I mention that. This book about a killer for hire who gets wrapped up in all kinds of foreign and domestic spy/political and criminal enterprises is just great fun. And there's some deep stuff too but not too much to derail the story. Read this book and read his others. They're all great. Discover him-do yourself a favor.

What starts out as a simple murder-for-hire novel soon multiplies in its complexity as the protagonist is pulled into far more than he anticipated. A master of character and plot development, the author has another great story to tell.

Filled with thoughtfully developed characters, the plot takes further unexpected but entertaining detours. Fans of darkly funny crime dramas such as Fargo will be hooked.

Determinedly offbeat...the enjoyment Beinhart derives from his spritzing, free-wheeling approach lifts the book, which at its best is a cross between Stanley Elkin and Raymond Chandler... A COMIC NOIR WITH A VOICE ALL ITS OWN.

Tony Casella is an ex-private eye whose best days are behind him. He ends up entangled in a murder-for-hire plot through a chance encounter on a train. As he tries to tie up the situation without actually having to murder anyone, he gets drawn deeper into outlandish schemes and even foreign espionage. Tony Casella is a fun character to spend time with, and there is a lot of humor in the book. This is the first book I have read from Larry Beinhart, but I think I'll spend some time checking out his books after reading this one.