Don't Ask Hardcover - 1993
by Donald E. Westlake
The hard-luck burglar John Dortmunder--Westlake's most celebrated character--plunges into the world of international diplomacy in his latest caper. The winner of three Edgar Allan Poe Awards, Westlake has been nominated for more Edgars than any living writer.
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Dortmunder has a job offer. He's been hired by third parties to pull off heists in the past, but never to lay his hands on anything this peculiar. Frankly, it's a bone. Not just any bone. A femur. Well, not just any femur, either. A femur which, 800 years ago, was part of a 16-year-old girl who, having been killed and eaten by her own family, was made a saint by the Church. The femur, her only relic, is all that's left. Now two small eastern European countries - Tsergovia and Votskojek - are fighting like dogs over...well, the bone. There's only room for one of them in the United Nations General Assembly, and the choice is in the hands of a powerful Catholic prelate. The country that tosses him the bone is sure to be in like Flynn. Dortmunder's first reaction to the Tsergovian ambassador's offer is to ask for more front money. His second is to round up his gang - light-fingered Kelp, master driver Murch, and man-mountain Tiny Bulcher - and case the Votskojekian mission, a former tramp steamer parked in the East River. The current repository of the bone, it will be the target of a heist carried out by land and sea, with the team displaying the finesse and split-second timing for which they're famous. It should only be that easy. Before the gang can say "Saint Ferghana's knee", they've got a major fiasco on their hands, one that will reach from the snow-capped mountains of Votskojek to a billionaire's art-crammed estate in New Hampshire. But it will show, once and for all, that when it comes to getting revenge, Dortmunder can cut to the bone.
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- Title Don't Ask
- Author Donald E. Westlake
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mysterious Press, New York
- Date 1993-04-01
- ISBN 9780892964697 / 0892964693
- Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
- Dimensions 9.18 x 6.44 x 1.14 in (23.32 x 16.36 x 2.90 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
- Library of Congress subjects Detective and mystery stories, Adventure stories
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92053721
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Booklist, 03/01/1993, Page 1160
- Library Journal, 03/01/1993, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 02/08/1993, Page 0
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