Milo "Meat" Pitts - twenty stone of trouble - is out of prison after eight years, and is ready to deplete the town of Grand Rapids of a third of a million dollars. But when Milo looks for partners, things start to go hideously wrong. Tom Kakonis has also written "Michigan Roll".

Criss Cross

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Kakonis, Tom

Mystery

Pan/Macmillan

Timothy Waverly, an ex-con and ambitious card shark, is up to his ears in trouble in Las Vegas as he becomes involved in an ingenious basketball point-shaving scam and matches wits with a calculating psychopath, with his sister's life at stake. Reprint.

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Literature & Fiction

Signet

Double Down

Professional poker player Tim Waverly, hounded by the local crime boss and pursued by an assassin, stands to lose his life unless he can come up with the tremendous amount of cash he needs to buy himself out of trouble

Onyx

United States

Dutton Adult

While in Las Vegas, gambler Timothy Waverly stumbles into his latest mystery as he runs into a basketball point-shaving scam and sees his sister becoming involved with a psychopath, who wants to make a killing with the fixed games.

Dutton Book

Brash Books

Treasure Coast is the wild new thriller from Tom Kakonis, the acclaimed author of Criss Cross and Michigan Roll. A compulsive gambler goes to his sister's funeral on Florida's Treasure Coast and gets saddled with her loser-son, who is deep in debt to a vicious loan shark who sends a pair of sociopathic thugs to collect on the loan. But things go horribly awry...and soon the gambler finds himself in the center of an outrageous kidnapping plot involving a conman selling mail-order tombstones, a psychic who channels the dead and the erotically super-charged wife of a wealthy businessman. As if that wasn't bad enough, a killer hurricane is looming... It's "Get Shorty" meets "No Country for Old Men" on a sunny Florida coast teeming with conmen and killers, the vapid and the vain, and where violent death is just a heartbeat away. "Kakonis is a sharp new gambler in the literary crap game -- he just takes the pot." The New York Times "Aptly compared to Elmore Leonard, Kakonis builds exquisite tension...steamy with a high-rent, low-life atmosphere...and an unforgettable cast." Publishers Weekly "Tom Kakonis is a master of the low-life novel. Nobody does it better." Ross Thomas

Treasure Coast

“A cracking good crime thriller that resurrects both the gambling hero of Kakonis' Michigan Roll and the exhilaratingly tough, yet deeply humane, storytelling that made that first novel one of the most memorable in recent crime fiction,” Kirkus Reviews  A mob boss has given professional gambler Timothy Waverly two weeks to make good on a $300,000 debt…or die at the hands of two hit men. Waverly’s only hope is convince a pill-popping, ex-girlfriend and her loser husband to set him up in a series of high-stakes poker games in Palm Beach with a rich Arab prince who cheats at cards. But that’s not the only game that’s rigged. Waverly knows he’s going to be killed as soon as he pays his debt…and that somehow he’s got to cheat death in the ultimate gamble.  "One of the top ten crime novels of the year!" New York Times  “Kakonis once again rolls nothing but sevens, throwing out a steady stream of brutally funny lies threaded through steamy sex, sun-fried morality, and sneaky card lore,” Booklist  "Aptly compared to Elmore Leonard, Kakonis builds exquisite tension...steamy with a high-rent, low-life atmosphere and an unforgettable cast.” Publishers Weekly  “Hot-wired, no-holds-barred, masterful!” Washington Post  “A cold-deck nightmare of high-stakes peril,” Daniel Woodrell, bestselling author of Winter’s Bone.

Double Down: A Waverly Thriller (Waverly Thriller Series)

LADY LUCK IS DEALING DEATH… AND WAVERLY IS HOLDING A LOSING HAND. Twice selected by the New York Times as one of the Ten Best Crime Novelists of the Year, Tom Kakonis brings back Waverly, his cunning professional gambler, in what The Washington Post calls “a keenly fatalistic thriller.” Waverly is in Las Vegas now, counting cards at the blackjack tables, trying to scratch together some money without getting caught. Things aren’t going too bad until his naive sister drifts into town and hooks up with a murderous sociopath nicknamed Eggs who wants to muscle in on a basketball point-shaving scheme. Soon people are dying and the only way Waverly can save himself, and his sister, from joining them is to play a game of blackjack-to-the-death… "The latest and kinkiest...a bravura performance that will make your palms sweat." New York Times "Aptly compared to Elmore Leonard, Kakonis builds exquisite tension...steamy with a high-rent, low-life atmosphere and an unforgettable cast.” Publishers Weekly

Shadow Counter: A Waverly Thriller (Waverly Thriller Series)

Genre Fiction

It’s Every Parent’s Worst Nightmare.  Marshall and Lori Quinn’s quiet, peaceful life is shattered when their three-year-old son Jeff is abducted. When the police investigation stalls, and Lori plunges into catatonic despair, Marshall takes on the hunt for Jeff himself, a relentless, increasingly deadly quest that pits him against violent forces that he can’t defeat alone…

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Treasure Coast

Double Down: A Waverly Thriller (Waverly Thriller Series)

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