Michigan Roll

by Tom Kakonis

Book Overview

THE MASTERS OF CRIME FICTION BET ON TOM KAKONIS... "Kakonis can really write. In Waverly, he gives us a wonderful character in a brutal world," Tony Hillerman "Michigan Roll is fast, strong, harsh and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312022522
• ISBN13: 9780312022525
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Michigan Rolls still rolls

I had read this in the mid 90's originally and loved it. Just read it again and still enjoyed it. I have recommended this one and Criss Cross (another non series title by Kakonis) to others and it was appreciated. The Tim Waverly character is appealing (ex con-ex literature professor now a card counting gambler) with some remnants and scruples still of his former life in academia. Any dialogue involving the two low lifes sent to retrieve the money stolen from Mr. Big (Gleep and Shadow) or their handler Mr. Gaylon was absolutely priceless. The author is compared in the review to Elmore Leonard - but to my mind he is a little edgier - perhaps more in the Eugene Izzi, Timothy Watts category.