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Hapless criminal John Dortmunder returns in another rollicking tale of disorganized crime from Grand Master of Mystery Donald E. Westlake. It's the score of a lifetime: easy access to a lavish New York City apartment, hordes of valuables, and an absentee owner avoiding the lawyers of his unhappy ex-wives. But before they pull the job, Dortmunder's crew is startled to find their beloved gin joint, the OJ, in the clutches of the Mafia-who consider it perfect for a little fraud, courtesy of a nice big fire. For tactical and highly superstitious reasons, the fate of the OJ is even more important to the crew than the enormous score. Now, Dortmunder and his gang are determined to split their time, fighting the mob and robbing the rich simultaneously.
Customer Reviews:
On a par with the 87th Precinct novels.......2007-08-06
Since Ed McBain's departure, I've been looking for a writer guaranteed to end a reading slump. I think I've found one. Actually the Dortmunder series and the 87th precinct have a lot in common. They're both humorous, they both rely on multiple characters and story lines, and both writers are deceptively adept prose masters.
The biggest difference between the two is that Westlake has us cheering for the crooks. In this one, Dortmunder's fence, Arnie Albright, has set the gang up to rob a venture capitalist, Preston Fairweather, who's hiding from his ex-wives in the Caribbean, making his Manhattan apartment easy pickings. The B-story involves the "Busting out" of the OJ Bar and Grill, Dortmunder's hangout. Busting out is maxing out the bar's credit line, then shutting the place down. Dortmunder and crew waylay the organized crime members behind it.
Certainly Dortmunder and his friends are amusing characters, but I found the minor ones more entertaining in this one. Two of them stand out. Preston Fairweather's ex-wives conspire to kidnap him and bring him back to the states to face litigation. In his attempt to escape their clutches he meets a bone fisherman named Porfiro. The interplay between the two is hysterical. The second one is young Judson Blint who takes a job working for Tiny's girlfriend J.C. His resume is a pack of lies, which is why she hires him. She runs several scams, one of which is taking up too much of her time. Judson is hired to run the others while she's absorbed. Judson will end up being the most valuable member of the gang.
Like McBain whose literary efforts were written under the name Evan Hunter, Westlake can really turn a phrase when he wants to. This is Alan, Preston Fairweather's right-hand man being introduced to Pam Broussard, who is in the employ of the ex-wives: "He shook her hand, a cold hard thing like a falconer's glove." This next example is from Preston Fairweather, describing the Caribbean: "The August sun, God's blood blister, hung midway down the sky."
I've read three Dortmunders now and it's always frustrating that Dortmunder never seems to score the big one, but it's also fascinating to see how he will be foiled this time.
A Near-Perfect Comic Crime Caper Plot.......2007-07-27
Many plots are like gravel pits, full of harsh points that don't fit together very well. Why? I don't know. Perhaps the authors just write without having the end in mind. Or perhaps some authors like messy, pointless plots. Every once in awhile I have the pleasure of reading a book where all of the elements work smoothly together taking me effortlessly and comfortably to unexpected and interesting places. Watch Your Back! is one of those books.
But that's not why you read Dortmunder novels. You want some laughs, some irony, work play, and some straightforward comedy. Watch Your Back! has the expected quota along those lines. Any Dortmunder story that begins with the regulars at the OJ Bar & Grill is bound to have a humorous tone throughout.
The book's theme is about what happens to people when they take on new roles in new places. Everyone is affected, but some change . . . and improve . . . while others stay the same.
As the book opens, Dortmunder and his gang of irregulars are without a scheme. But Arnie Albright, New York's most obnoxious but best paying fence, soon offers one.
It turns out that Arnie's family finally found him to be too obnoxious to stand and insisted he take a trip to Club Med in the Caribbean. While there, Arnie had met the wealthy and obnoxious (in a different way) Preston Fareweather (nominally a New Yorker but on the lam from the talons of his four ex-wives who are legally ganging up on him). Arnie learned that Fareweather has a penthouse in Manhattan full of treasures which he never visits and will probably never visit again. What could be a better set up?
When the gang gets together to plan the caper, there's a problem. The back room at the OJ Bar & Grill is off limits and Rollo, the bartender, warns Dortmunder off. Two creeps in a booth seem to be connected to the problem. Dortmunder tries holding his meeting at home and future meetings in the backroom of another bar, but it's not the same. So he decides to find out what's going on at the OJ Bar & Grill. What he learns sets him into unaccustomed action.
Meanwhile, we get to find out why Fareweather is so obnoxious and become acquainted with a young crook-in-training, Judson Blint, who wants to join the gang.
Before the story is over, the characters have even more surprises than you do as the reader. You come out ahead, though, because their problems become the source of your laughter.
Pick your spot and timing carefully!
Thank God and Westlake for Dortmunder.......2007-06-13
The comic caper novel is a rare genre. Few do it well. Westlake does it magnificently. I laughed out loud, chuckled and guffawed my way through this book. It reads fast and is the appropriate bit of froth and fun to cleanse the palete.
Dortmunder and gang are immortal. My one (very minor) complaint is that I missed May -- I needed to know what was on sale at Bohack's!
Having moved to the west coast I gleefully anticipate Stan Murch's driving directions to bring back all the old memories of dealing with NYC traffic. (He is invariably right as to what is the quickest route, despite his mother's occassionally disagreements)
I also anticipate the technology delighted Andy Kelp's interaction with the reactionary Dortmunder. I await with baited breath Westlake's conversation between these two explaining the camera/ipod/phone and why that is a good thing.
The sub plot with the NJ mobsters taking over the OJ Bar and Grill is inspired. Frankly, that could have been expanded at the expense of the main story and I would have given this 5 stars instead of 4. Dortmunder's plane trip down to Florida was inspired!
So, enjoy -- shoplift some beer and pretzels from Bohack's (plus a salt shaker or two) and lean back and enjoy the wonderful pacing, plotting, dialogue and general craziness of the best gang of professional thieves who have the world's worst luck and yet manage to roll with the punches and never quite go home empty handed.
Westlake's Dortmunder and crew may have a tough time making crime pay but are always worth their weight in gold for laughs.......2006-09-22
Donald Westlake a gift for comic timing. It's the same kind of deadpan humor that you could have seen in an old Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton film, and yet it never degenerates into broad slapstick. The latest Dortmunder comic mystery is no exception. Westlake as always, crafts a villain so slimy, one Preston Fareweather, that you just want something - anything, to happen to him. And it does - John Dortmunder and his merry band of criminal misfits.
As you follow the misadventures of Dortmunder and crew from one catastrophe to another, you find yourself secretly rooting to just once, let them (actually the crooks !) score. Westlake really does prove with this loveable band of hapless bad guys, that while there is a certain amount of satisfaction and laughs along the way, they somehow just can't really make crime pay. In fact I've often wondered myself why they don't all just pack it in and find a nice steady job in a shoe store or flipping burgers. At the end of the day they'd probably be way ahead! But of course then we wouldn't have the pleasure of awaiting whatever calamity will befall them in Westlake's next comic masterpiece.
The Hot Prufrock.......2006-06-26
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, the muttering retreats of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels and sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells; streets that follow like a tedious argument of insidious intent to lead you to an overwhelming question ... What rough beast is slouching toward the O.J. Bar & Grill?
Why, who else but John Dortmunder, discount-rack mastermind and Louis Napoleon of Crime? On the first page of "Watch Your Back," Dortmunder enters the O.J. in a perfectly routine way to do what he routinely does, plan a crime. Tonight's proposed caper, though, evaporates before it can even start. (Routine, again, for even if Dortmunder should hear the mermaids singing, each to each, I do not think they will sing to him.) With no crime to plan, it hardly seems worthwhile to stay, so Dortmunder slouches home.
But the next time he steps into the O.J., he meets something unthinkable--change!
"What was going on? Was it a wake around here? Nobody wore a black armband, but the faces on the regulars were long enough. They, all of the them, men and the women's auxiliary, too, were hunched over their drinks with that thousand-yard stare that suggests therapy is no longer an option. In short, the place looked exactly like that section of the socialist realist mural where the workers have been utterly shafted by the plutocrats. Dortmunder looked up, half-expecting to see top hats and cigars in the gloom up there, but nothing."
This disturbing discovery leads by a series of incremental steps including, but not limited to a sojourn at Club Med, an alimony exile, a bust-out, a fence transformed, a younger son attempting to achieve success in the family business, a cabal of ex-wives, a serial betrayer betrayed, and a big-money score with unforeseen result--an all-too routine thing for Dortmunder, alas--that lead the low-rent mastermind and his seedy associates ... to a couple of guys stealing a pig. All this, mind you, with an inevitability even Sophocles or Euripides might envy.
And it's funny, too.
I find myself reading quite a few mysteries these days; it beats measuring out my life with coffee spoons. Oh, they are satisfactory enough, not "Hamlet," nor are meant to be. The average practitioner of the mystery novel form is, well, average. Prose lying between the covers of most mysteries is deferential, glad to be of use, politic, cautious and meticulous; full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; at times, indeed, almost ridiculous-- But occasionally there is a writer who can write, really write, someone who has mastered the tools of the profession, rhetoric, dialogue, plot development, pacing, characterization--in short, all the things banished from literary fiction during our lifetimes. Donald E. Westlake is just such a writer. In spades.
For proof that Westlake is much more than just a journeyman wordsmith, consider how he puts these thoughts of a bright young man happily embarked on a new career:
"If everything he did didn't happen to be breaking some law or another--mail fraud, misuse of bulk rate, identity theft of the endorsements, plagiarism, sale of inappropriate material to minors, on and on--all of this activity would be very like a job. But it was better than a job. It was a world, a world he'd always believed had to exist somewhere, but hadn't known where to find. So it had found him."
Or these of a not quite so young man less happy with his job choice, one sentence in a breathless, agitated, sub-clausal hurry:
"From the moment Preston phoned him, a little after midnight, waking him from what he had to admit was in any case a troubled sleep, Alan found that Thursday, the nineteenth of August, was the most hellish day of his entire life, as well as the longest, and only partly because so much of the day consisted of travel, which in addition to the normal irritations implicit in the very word 'travel,' was chockablock with extra aggravations, due both to the unforeseen nature of the travel involved and to its abnormalities--leaving a Club Med on a week day, for instance, just to begin with."
I grow old ... I grow old ... I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. And every new Westlake I shall read, even as in the room the women come and go, talking of Michelangelo.
Five stars ... and a peach for Tom Elliott.
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Adam Canfield Watch Your Back! (The Slash)
Michael Winerip
Manufacturer: Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged Lib Ed
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As coeditor of the Slash, the Harris Elementary/Middle School paper, Adam Canfield is used to getting the story. What he's not used to is being the story, which is just what happens after he's mugged by some high-school students for his snow-shoveling money.
But it's hard to keep a low profile when there's still baritone and basketball practice, a new principal to figure out, a science fair sham to uncover, a bully survey to monitor, a three-hundred-year-old tree to save, and the next issue of the Slash to take care of. It's enough to drive a kid over the edge. Luckily, Adam's got Jennifer, his trusty (and cute!) coeditor, to help him keep it together. But when the Slash is threatened, will they be able to get the story and keep the paper going, all without getting expelled?
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Watch Your Back
Kathleen Brush
Manufacturer: Word Association
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ASIN: 1595710876
Release Date: 2005-09-01 |
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A plague of mismanagement was sucking the life from B-Block Software. On its last gasp a fractious coup puts in power, Sam, a courageous rookie. Sam deftly takes on B-Blocks endless business problems in dogged pursuit of rebuilding a company investors and employees can be proud of. However, she soon discovers that not everyone shares her goals and business is dirtier than politics. Sam becomes a beleaguered CEO fighting to keep her commitment to the employees and the shareholders, in an enviroment where good management is despised and her back is everyones favorite bulls eye. Kathleen Brush has a unique background for writing this story: a Ph.D. in management and twelve years as a turn-around executive. The outcome is an entertaining, educational, nail biting behind the scenes look at the corporate workplace.
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This digital document is an article from Pediatric News, published by International Medical News Group on November 1, 2001. The length of the article is 929 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Catch Curves Like Scoliosis in Time for Bracing. (Watch your Patients' Backs).
Author: Heidi Splete
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Pediatric News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2001
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 35
Issue: 11
Page: 42(2)
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This digital document is an article from Girls' Life, published by Monarch Avalon, Inc. on April 1, 2003. The length of the article is 1036 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Watch your back! Ouch! It hurts when a BFF stabs you in the back. (Friends).
Author: Sarah Cordi
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Date: April 1, 2003
Publisher: Monarch Avalon, Inc.
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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by The Register Guard on June 13, 2004. The length of the article is 1298 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Watch your back, there's a new publisher in town.(General News)
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The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: June 13, 2004
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Watch your back.(A View From The Press Box): An article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
Sam Friedman
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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on September 27, 2004. The length of the article is 621 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Watch your back.(A View From The Press Box)
Author: Sam Friedman
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This digital document is an article from Circuits Assembly, published by UP Media Group, Inc. on July 1, 2001. The length of the article is 759 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Watch Your Back.(Editorial)(Brief Article)
Author: Lisa Hamburg
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Circuits Assembly (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2001
Publisher: UP Media Group, Inc.
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Customer Reviews:
A must Have.......2001-07-14
This is the book if you want to explore the never-ending realms of The Umbra, the previous edition, was packed with a better loyout, but inside this book is everithing you want to know about Umbra
Indirect Review.......2001-07-09
Personally, being a member of a weekly TT group, I've seen all too many times when our resident ST pulls this book out of his pack before a satisfying game to ignore its value...
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- Old School fantasy with a new age twist
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Blacksent: Book of the Umbra
Michael A LaFlamme & Michael D. Poe
Manufacturer: Infinity Publishing
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ASIN: 0741438100
Release Date: 2007-02-08 |
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"He is written about in legend, whispered about in the dark corners of the world. He is shadow; he is wind. Yet none know his name or his face; for this, to be sure, is a Master Assassin from McAmal." Ncon tried to deny the legacy of McAmal, the Deamon-ruled island of his birth, but his blood-debt remains unforgiven. Aided by his friend, the flamboyant swordmage Figment, and under the subversive guidance of the wizard Zandor, Ncon must return to McAmal to face the GrandWeir, God of the Assassins, and kill one last time.
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Old School fantasy with a new age twist.......2007-05-08
I have been working on this project as an artist for awhile and I have to say that I am excited to see it come to fruition! It was an even more joyous experience for me to read the book and see the characters I was depicting come to life.
Overall, the book is an enjoyable experience with a high fantasy adventure feel that sword and sorcery fans are sure to enjoy. However, what keeps this from being a higher rating are a few cons which may be due to personal preferences of my own.
Firstly, though entertaining and fast-paced, I felt that the dialog was often the only thing to define the characters, who were numerous and often defined only by their verbal interactions. I was often left straining to remember what the characters looked like, what their histories were, and how they knew one another. More attention to their mannerisms, their inner thoughts, and their memories would color them with a bit more life (Ncon and particularly Figment being the exceptions to prove the rule).
I also felt that the numerous characters often stretched the plotline and pulled focus away from the main characters, Ncon and Figment, who were often more interesting than the others. When it comes to Ncon and Figment in particular, I was not sure who the main character should have been. Figment's rather large part in the first half of the novel and endearing dialog throughout brought the novel's attention mainly to him. The man is a scene-stealer and oftentimes poor Ncon is left brooding or commenting on the situation from the sidelines.
These two characters (along with so many others) warred for my attention and gave the novel a slightly scattered feel which I believe can be improved if it were focused mainly around Ncon's trials in McAmal (and his parents experiences there) or Figment's tales of his marriages and past lives. I felt that for Ncon to be more of the main focus, there should have been more attention to his character development, particularly after he left McAmal and met Figment for the first time and less attention on the side adventures of characters such as Haelan, Cona, and Dallon. The early years of Ncon sound even more intriguing to me than Ncon as he appears in the novel proper, because the majority of times he is shown in the novel, he has already gone through most of his endearing and interesting character changes. Perhaps a Ncon spinoff is in order?
The book is hampered by small typos (mainly homonyms) which an automated spell checker will not find. Also, of minor concern was the random use of curse words throughout. It's not that they're inappropriate for being bad, rather, the usage of such curse words gave the novel a more modern feel and often felt overused. I felt the curse words in other languages such as McAmalese to be more appropriate and add more of a mood than the usage of very modern cursing by other characters, which seemed out of place.
My favorite scene has to be the sequence in Chapter 8:"Mountain Secrets" where Ncon works his way into the princess' bedchamber in order to assassinate the queen. I was so shocked by the ending to that particular scene that I had to stop and go "What on earth?" That scene was also written with more of a punch. Attention to such details as the festival, the clinging girls, and the gruffness of Ncon's dismissal of those not having to do with his mission really set the scene in a way that created atmosphere and anticipation, as well as shed light on the way he used to be as an Assassin (something which I wanted to see more of throughout the novel).
All in all, this is a great adventure with characters that have so much potential. I would not recommend this for anyone under 13, however, due to adult content.
With this project beginning with such fervor, I look forward to seeing where it takes us!
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- lovely pictures, plus an interview with Quentin Crisp
- The best drag coffee table book ever...dad will love it!
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Drag Diaries (An Umbra Editions Book)
C. Chermayeff , and
J. David
Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
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lovely pictures, plus an interview with Quentin Crisp.......2000-07-20
A collection of interviews with several drag queens, varying in readability. The pictures are wonderful, and the interview with Quentin Crisp is especially delightful.
The best drag coffee table book ever...dad will love it!.......1998-07-16
Finally, a book about drag that positively revels in the glamour of being a drag queen. No "who we are and why we are" rationalizing...it just get deep into the fun and beauty of drag. The book includes chapters on the history of drag, interviews with drag superstars (Lypsynka, Holly Woodlawn, Lady Bunny among many others), drag essentials (get yourself to that MAC makeup counter!) a list of the many movies that feature transgender themes and a great listing of drag nightclubs and events around the world...
Customer Reviews:
Umbra: A must have........2001-05-14
This book is a wonderful tool for any storyteller who wants to run a game which goes further than just going out and beating things up. It gives a glimpse of the other side of the gauntlet which allows you to run games full of depth, symbolism and meaning. It also give new locations for going out and killing people if you need them.
With a description of how the werewolves see the umbra, the near realms, rules systems, story seeds and insights in how to do the umbra justice in the game, this book can transform your games for the better. It did mine.
One of the most important of Werewolf Sourcebooks.......1997-06-29
This one really is a must-have for the serious Storyteller. It is an in-depth guide to the Umbra. The sourcebook is packed with information, and seems to be fairly well-organized. I have found it very useful indeed: I could not Storytell for Garou without this book with any ease
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- Enlightening Work
- Fun for the whole family!
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CRY FOR HELP: STORIES OF HOMELESSNESS AND HOPE (Umbra Editions)
Manufacturer: Touchstone
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Enlightening Work.......2003-12-11
This is a beautiful book which portrays the reality of homelessness in NYC in remarkably moving portraits, and the personal words and stories of the featured homeless themselves. It is a book that is at times a portrayal of perseverance and hope while revealing both the struggles and harsh reality of pain and suffering and reasons some people have found themselves homeless, while at the same time capturing what beauty is present in their lives. It is an eye opening reminder for those of us who are more fortunate in the world. A remarkable work to be apprechiated by lovers of sociology,photography, portraiture and photojournalism as well as those who have an interest in simply capturing a glimpse of others' world that most are fortunate enough to never otherwise experience. Regarding one reviewer's comment it is a FAMILY book, I would use discretion in sharing parts of this with children, as some of the content of the personal stories is more suitable for teenagers and adults. I do think however think the photos can be shared with younger children to introduce awareness of povery and compassion for others, as well as an apprechiation of the beauty and joy ALL people can experience, regardless of economic circumstance. There is great value in fostering undertanding and compassion without pity, which I feel this unique work wonderfully does.
Fun for the whole family!.......2000-01-06
Excellent work, you can see the progress in her work, from her earlier times and on. This is an accurate portrayal of homelesness in New York. The pictures were breathtaking. Overall a very interesting and informative work of art.
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