Karen's easy life as a receptionist and armed robber is about to take a turn for the worse.Rossi, her ex, is getting out of prison any day now.He'll be looking for his motorcycle, his gun, the sixty grand he says is his, and revenge.But he won't be expecting Ray, the new guy Karen's just met, to be in his way.No stranger to the underworld himself, Ray wants out of the kidnapping game now that some dangerous new bosses are moving in.
Meanwhile Frank, a disgraced plastic surgeon, hires Ray to kidnap his ex-wife for the insurance money.But the ex-wife also happens to be Karen's best friend.Can Karen and Ray trust each other enough to work together on one last job? Or will love, as always, ruin everything?
From a writer hailed as "Elmore Leonard with a hard Irish edge" (Irish Mail on Sunday), Declan Burke's The Big O is crime fiction at its darkest and funniest.
- ISBN13 9780151014088
- Publish Date 1 September 2008
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 July 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Houghton Mifflin
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 279
- Language English