Wet Work - Softcover

Christopher Buckley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749006617 ISBN 13: 9780749006617

Publisher: Allison & Busby, 2003

Synopsis

Charlie Becker, a defense contractor in control of America's biggest conglomerates, unleashes his own private army of experts on the job when his granddaughter, Tasha, dies of a drug overdose. Reprint.

About this title

About the Author:

Christopher Buckley is a novelist and founding editor of Forbes FYI magazine. He lives in Washington, D. C., with his wife and two children. His journalism, satire and criticism has, amongst others, appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Esquire.

From Library Journal:

Grandfathers with nothing to lose are the most dangerous avengers, argues Buckley, whose The White House Mess (Knopf, 1986) is still going strong. Here, armed with his puckish humor, and drawing on the milieu of drugs and insurgency, Buckley unleashes a formidable senior citizen's vengeance when his only grandchild dies of a cocaine overdose. After disposing of her domestic predators, the old geezer sets sail in his yacht for the Amazon, bent on eliminating the Peruvian drug lord in his jungle redoubt. Buckley subtly merges the sheer entertainment of a good travel yarn with the vicious motivations of greed to produce a story that deserves a strong recommendation.
- Barbara Conaty, Library of Congress
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Allison & Busby
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0749006617
• ISBN 13: 9780749006617
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256