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Step to the graveyard easy

Matthew Cape does things he's never dared and goes places he's only dreamed about. If there's a price to pay, Cape is the one who will pay it. Dealing with grifters like Boone and Tanya Judson, however, is a touch of the unknown.

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  • "When a high-stakes poker game ends in carnage, Cape is sure that Boone and Tanya were involved, but now there's someone else in the picture, someone even more dangerous than the grifters. The police think Cape knows more than he lets on, making his search for the murderer that much more urgent. Pronzini (Nothing but the Night; Blue Lonesome) efficiently pulls readers into Cape's world, but other characters get little fine shading. The author compensates with lean, tart dialogue and snappy pacing as Cape doggedly tries to right the world's wrongs, like a jaded Robin Hood. Though he's an ordinary man caught up in events beyond his control, he is also fearless before death and, through him, readers can act out the pulp fantasy of a good guy beating the odds."
  • "There is a price to pay for redemption Grabbing the reader with the opening line of Step to the Graveyard Easy, Bill Pronzini shows again why he is considered one of America's leading masters of suspense. As he did in Blue Lonesome, In an Evil Time, and A Wasteland of Strangers, Pronzini delves into character and motivation without missing a beat of the action as he portrays men and women caught up in events not of their own making. There's no time to worry about their fears: they deal with the threats they face in the manner of real people, not pawns of a plotline. As many have been before him, Matthew Cape is confronted by the need to make a change, to go where he's never been, to do things he's never dared. That means giving up everything he has, starting fresh no matter the cost and no matter who might get hurt. The Corvette is manageable, skydiving is fun, and gambling, well, that has always been a passion. Dealing with grifters like Boone and Tanya Judson..."
  • "Matthew Cape, la quarantaine, abandonne sa maison, sa femme et son travail pour parcourir les routes des Etats-Unis à la recherche de sensations fortes."
  • "Matthew Cape runs into a pair of grifters named Boone and Tanya Judson and they lead him from San Francisco to Lake Tahoe, and just maybe to redemption."
  • "Matt Cape is 35 and stuck in a rut: when his wife catches him in bed with another woman, he quits his job and takes to the road, leaving his old life (or lack thereof) behind. He heads south, then west, eventually landing in San Francisco, where he is fleeced in a card game by Boone Judson and his sidekick, Tanya. Cape gets his and the other players' money back, along with some mysterious photographs. He returns the money to its owners and follows the cardsharps to Lake Tahoe, where he also tracks down the people in the photos and warns them that they may be in danger."
  • "Matthew Cape does things he's never dared and goes places he's only dreamed about. If there's a price to pay, Cape is the one who will pay it. Dealing with grifters like Boone and Tanya Judson, however, is a touch of the unknown."@en

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  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Mystery stories"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Krimis, Thriller, Spionage"
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"

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  • "Step to the graveyard easy"@en
  • "Step to the graveyard easy"
  • "Schlechte Karten : Roman"
  • "Schlechte Karten"
  • "La mort sans peine"
  • "Step to the Graveyard Easy"@en

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