Double Down

A Waverly Thriller

by Tom Kakonis

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Pub Date Sep 13 2014 | Archive Date May 03 2015

Brash Books

Mystery & Thrillers

Description

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 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 his biggest gamble yet.

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Advance Praise

"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

"Choice...pull up a chair and name your game...Timothy Waverly, the ace gambler, is dealing this hand, so every card's a wild one...Tom Kakonis knows his game!"

New York Times

"Aptly compared to Elmore Leonard...Kakonis builds exquisite tension...steamy with a high-rent, low-life atmosphere...an unforgettable cast...a violent shoot-out"

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

"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...