FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CARTEL.When Tim Kearney, a small-time criminal, slits the throat of a Hell’s Angel and draws a life sentence in a prison full of gang members, he knows he’s pretty much a dead man. That’s until the DEA makes Kearney an offer: impersonate the late, legendary dope smuggler Bobby Z so that the agency can trade him for one of their own, who was captured by a Mexican … own, who was captured by a Mexican drug kingpin. Knowing his chances of survival are a little better than in prison, Kearney accepts, and he winds up in the middle of a desert at the notorious drug lord’s lavish compound. To his surprise he meets Bobby Z’s old flame, Elizabeth, and her son. At first, it’s a short vacation by the pool, but when things turn bloody, the three of them begin the most desperate flight of their lives, with drug lords, bikers, Indians, and cops furiously chasing after them. Whether he pulls it off, whether he can keep the kid and the girl and his life, makes this compelling novel a hilarious, fast-paced thriller about a con caught in a devil’s bargain.
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The Death and Life of Bobby Z is the book that started Don Winslow on his “drugs in Laguna” series, which isn’t actually a series as much as an attitude and state of mind that led eventually to Savages and its prequel.
Tim Kearney is a three-time loser who gets fished out of a certain-death trip back to prison by a DEA agent who gives him an …
Page turning at its best with a streak of humor throughout.
Read the Book in one day very good well written
Interesting plot and witty descriptions.
A terrific Don Winslow book….funny, easy to read and hard to put down. Reading this or any of his books will make you a Don Winslow fan and you’ll love the clever shaggy dog narratives and especially the endings of his books.
Winslow never disappoints!
Kept my interest thru the entire book. Interesting concept and plot twists.
I enjoyed the way the main character sort of kept falling into the right thing. The guy was a real loser who won in the end.
This is a fun read