Forty Thieves by Thomas Perry (Epub)

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Sid and Ronnie Abel are a first-rate husband-and-wife detective team, both ex-LAPD. Ed and Nicole Hoyt are married assassins-for-hire living in the San Fernando Valley. Except for deadly aim with a Glock 17, the couples have little in common—until they’re hired to do damage control on the same murder. The body of research scientist James Ballantine has been pulled from a storm sewer, with two bullet holes in the back of his head.

With the case turning cold, Ballantine’s former employers bring in the Abels to succeed where the police have failed. As for the Hoyts, their mysterious contractors want to make sure that the facts about Ballantine’s death stay hidden. Now the Abels must try to survive as they circle ever closer to the truth, and to a dangerous pair guarding it with their lives.

From “a master of nail-biting suspense” (Los Angeles Times), comes a “propulsive, darkly humorous” (Publishers Weekly) “double-barreled Southern California thriller that moves almost faster than a speeding bullet” (The Wall Street Journal).

User’s Reviews

Review Praise for Forty Thieves:“Guns are ubiquitous in Thomas Perry’s breathtaking Forty Thieves, a double-barreled Southern California thriller that moves almost faster than a speeding bullet.”—Tom Dolan, Wall Street Journal“With a rat-a-tat plot that’s as violent as a video¬game, Perry follows two couples-one a pair of ex-LAPD officers and the other assassins-for¬ hire-who work opposite sides of the same case.”―Entertainment Weekly“Nick and Nora Charles they’re not. But while Sid and Veronica Abel may be lacking in urbanity, these private investigators are no less brainy and far better marksmen. Appearing for the first time in Thomas Perry’s new thriller, Forty Thieves, these former Los Angeles police detectives have been married for over 30 years and have children and grandchildren. That confers on them the wisdom of the ancients, along with the cloak of invisibility in a youth-obsessed society, which suits them just fine . . . The tips you learn in a Perry novel are priceless.”—Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review“This stand-alone caper smoothly mixes high-octane thrills with comic capering, as two married couples—one a PI team, the other a hit couple for hire—spar with one another . . . until they both find themselves in the crosshairs of a lethal gang of Russian jewel thieves. Along the way to a knockout finale . . . Perry offers a master class in narrative sleight of hand . . . . Like the work of the late, great Ross Thomas—the crime writer Perry most resembles—Perry’s books, whether series or stand-alone, absolutely resist easy categorization, thoroughly melding character and plot, light and dark, and totally immersing the reader in the irresistible narrative.”—Booklist (starred review)“Forty Thieves is Thomas Perry at his best—equal parts exciting, ingenious and entertaining.”—Deadly Pleasures“Sardonic humor is rare in American mysteries. It is the kind of humor that creeps up on you and suddenly your reaction is a wry smile as you read the double-edged melodrama which abounds in Thomas Perry’s work.”—Washington Times“Propulsive, darkly humorous . . . As the likable, series-worthy Abels struggle to survive at least long enough to solve [the] murder, Perry tosses in several hairpin plot twists that culminate in a satisfyingly surprising conclusion.”—Publishers Weekly“Sid and Ronnie, both formerly of the LAPD, are brainy, thorough, and resourceful . . . The would-be killers, Ed and Nicole Hoyt, are the kind of people Perry knows like the back of his hand: coldhearted, businesslike, and consummately successful . . . Entertaining and suspenseful.”—Kirkus Reviews“A really solid suspense novel. One that gives you plenty of action, intriguing characters, but most of all, some real chills down the spine . . . You’ll read this until the wee hours.”—Globe and Mail (Toronto)“Forty Thieves . . . is high-voltage Perry . . . In Perry’s world you’ll find no faces from Central Casting, and you’ll hear no dialogue that rings flat or familiar. He brings his superb thriller to a close with a confrontation between his two foes that is as astonishing as it is satisfying.”—Open Letters Monthly –This text refers to the paperback edition.

Reviews from Amazon users, collected at the time the book is getting published on UniedVRG. It can be related to shiping or paper quality instead of the book content:

⭐ I am a big fan of Mr. Perry so I was very disappointed by this book. His other books have interesting, complex plots and well-developed characters. Forty Thieves isn’t like that. It’s a lazy book. The bad couple are a dietetic version of a bad couple in one of the Jane Whitefield books. They have the same character flaws, they just aren’t as intense. The thieves are one-dimensional and seemed to be just thrown into the story. And the book just stopped. It was as if he looked at the word count and said “OK, it’s long enough. I can stop now.”So if someone else had written this book, I would have given it 2 stars. If you’re a fan of Mr. Perry’s, I suggest getting it from the library or waiting until the price goes down.

⭐ Mr Perry has written some good books. This isn’t one of them. It seemed promising at the beginning, but the author seemed to lose interest somewhere in the middle. The last bit was so spare that I could finish reading it pretty fast, or I would have quit on it. It needs a better plot, some subtlety, decent dialog, skilled narration, and some characters that seem real. I have enjoyed other stories from this author.

⭐ This one had some twists and turns that were totally unexpected. Very good development of characters. I loved the private investigator couple and was amused at the subtle way the author showed the difference in the relationship of the PI couple and the criminal couple. Very good read.

⭐ A disappointing new series opener from a talented author. The two main couples — good guys and bad guys — are predictable, and the ultimate villains are total stereotypes. And this from Tomas perry, one of my favorite authors. He has his usual level of detail, so if you want to learn more about breaking into houses or how the sewer system works, you’ll like those parts. I was hoping for a good beach read, and I read it on the beach, but I found it mainly boring.

⭐ A murder seemingly without reason. A husband/wife PI team called in to solve the cold case and a husband/wife assassin team hired to keep the killer’s identity from being found out lead to a fast paced game of cat and mouse. The why is as important as the who especially since an international jewel theft ring is involved. Humor and some light banter add to the brisk pace. A real twist at the end.

⭐ It starts with a mystery that doesn’t turn out to be that interesting and it hinges on whole other groups of people with guns. The mystery isn’t solved by good detective work and the main characters disappear for long stretches while we follow the other groups. Lost in all these people’s story is the victim, who must have been a bastard anyway, so why go through all the trouble in an itchy switchy way to solve the crime?

⭐ I have read everything Thomas Perry writes. I of course have favourites, and series, but the stand alones are usually an interesting read. Characters are interesting, plots intriguing and action believable and often intense. Sometimes too realistic. Ive even reread the kindle sales, as this one was.

⭐ This was a disappointment coming from as skilled a writer as Thomas Perry. Too often the dialogue is simply not believable as actual conversation, serving instead as plot explanation. The result is an unwieldy, forced narrative. Mr. Perry has done so much better so many times before.

⭐ Garbage. Fluff from beginning to end. Predictable. Impossible. Inaccurate. Thomas Perry wrote some interesting stuff years ago. Now he just fills the pages with crap. Don’t waste your time or your money.

⭐ PLUS poor editing, and I don’t mean misspelled words I’m talking run-on sentences, use of the same word in the same sentence, eg “they found themselves the target but it had happened before even recently at a time when they were running when they were the target.” Yeah, that bad. Still, an ok storyline, but in my opinion? Perry didn’t write this. Just sayin.

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