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Title: Money for Nothing by Donald E. Westlake ISBN: 0-89296-787-0 Publisher: Mysterious Press Pub. Date: May, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.58 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: And Your Spies for Free
Comment: Josh receives a cheque for $1000 and has no idea why he received it. Month after month he receives another, and another. He tries to work out who is paying the money but no one answers the phone number on the cheque and the address is incomplete. After seven years Josh has become used to the money. He now has a family but he also has a man waiting for him at the bordering area to his daily ferry. It seems Josh has been paid to be a sleeper agent for the Russians without even knowing it and they have some evil plans for him.
This is a pretty good novel although it does move a bit slow at times. It is an enjoyable read though. I read the Ax also by Westlake before this which was brilliant so it did put my expectations up to masterpiece standards for this book which it did not quite achieve. Still a good book though. Definitely read the Ax if you are looking for a great Westlake novel.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not One of Westlake's Better Efforts
Comment: Donald E. Westlake's _Money For Nothing_, is kind of a strange book. It almost seems like Westlake isn't sure whether to turn this into a comic romp, like his Dortmunder books, or to be deadly serious, as in _The Ax_, so what we have is a bit of both, if you can imagine that.
Josh Redmont, an average New Yorker, has been receiving monthly checks of $1000 from a company called United States Agent for years. When the checks first started arriving, he did some minimal checking around to see if he could find the company or discern the reason for the checks, but his efforts never panned out. Now, many years later, he's approached by a stranger, who tells him "You are now active."
Josh is drawn into a dangerous world of spies and espionage with this simple command, and everything he does to try to pry himself loose seems to be of no avail, as he gets mired deeper and deeper in the scheme to assassinate the visiting head of an Eastern European dictatorship.
This is a weird mix of humor and seriousness. As Josh and a fellow agent, Mitch Robbie, go about trying to extricate themselves, there are a lot of humorous scenes. But the whole book ultimately builds to a violent climax that requires Josh to stand up to his captors and turn the tables on them and is deadly serious. I enjoyed the book, but it isn't on par with recent work by Westlake, such as _Bad News_ or _Put a Lid On It_.
Rating: 2
Summary: Unbelievable Plot
Comment: Westlake took an unbelievable plot, but even then it might have worked had he not put two bumbling characters in the middle of it. If they were able to be witty, sarcastic and foolish, in the face of death. Then it made it hard for the reader to be too concerned over their fate.
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Title: Put a Lid On it by Donald E. Westlake ISBN: 0446612057 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Thieves' Dozen by Donald E. Westlake ISBN: 0446693022 Publisher: Mysterious Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: God Save the Mark : A Novel of Crime and Confusion by Donald E. Westlake ISBN: 0765309181 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Bad News by Donald E. Westlake ISBN: 0446610844 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Mr. Paradise : A Novel by Elmore Leonard ISBN: 0060083956 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 13 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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