About this title: Hank Thompson was a first-class high-school ballplayer--until he fractured his ankle sliding into third base, ending his prospects for a career in the majors. Instead, he becomes a bartender with a humdrum but easy life. When he agrees to cat-sit for a friend, things suddenly change. For some reason, Hank is the target of some impressively gifted ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780345464781ISBN:0345464788
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Light edge wear to soft cover. Light page tanning form age. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 288 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780345464774ISBN:034546477X
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Slight wear to intact jacket, cover; no marks; no writing in book; binding straight, tight; pages bright, odor-free; will pack securely, ship promptly with Delivery Confirmation. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 256 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: 1st
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ballantine, N. Y.
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780345464774ISBN:034546477X
Description: Cover Art. Very Good in Very Good jacket. Hard Back. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. X-Library with normal flaws.....The hard cover and the jacket has light shelf wear....Date and highlight on the top outer edge of the pages............We are very careful when we list our books, but sometimes something minor may get by.... read more
Edition: First Trade Back Edition
Binding: Near Fine
Publisher: Ballantine Books, NY
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780345464781ISBN:0345464788
Description: Near Fine. No Jacket. Softcover Soft cover book in "like new" condition. Henry "call me Hank" Thompson used to play California baseball. Now he tends bar on Manhattan's Lower East Side. When two Russians in tracksuits beat Hank to a pulp, he gets the clue; someone wants something from him. He just doesn't know what it is, where it is, or how to make them understand he doesn't have it. Within twenty-four hours Hank is running over rooftops, playing hide-and-seek with the NYPD, riding the subway ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 2005-05-31
ISBN-13:9780345464781ISBN:0345464788
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780345464781. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780345464781ISBN:0345464788
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ballantine Books, New York
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780345464774ISBN:034546477X
Description: Near Fine+ in Near Fine+ jacket. Crisp and unread. read more
Edition: 1st edition. 1st Printing.
Binding: HC in dust jacket.
Publisher: Ballantine Books, NY
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780345464774ISBN:034546477X
Description: A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. read more
"I read it for 50 pages. The style is a turn off, but the writing & the plot are pretty good. If I didn't have anything else to read, I'd continue, but I have a LOT of other stuff & I just find this style too irritating to continue."
"A really fun, really manic, really violent debut novel from Charlie Huston, who in my opinion has one of the most engaging "voices" working in fiction today. Working with the wrong-man-wrong-place noir trope, Mr. Huston weaves a tale about Henry "Hank" Thompson, a somewhat down-and-out -- but really pretty well-adjusted -- bloke, who's life takes a horrible turn for the worse when he's asked to catsit for a neighbor. Thompson's evolution from cowering victim to hard-boiled victimizer is totally believable and really well described"
"I bought all three of the Henry Thompson books at once because I had read and liked some other Charlie Huston stories.
In some ways, I felt like I was reading one of Thomas Hardy's works (e.g. The Mayor of Casterbridge or Tess of the d'Urbervilles) because Henry Thompson gets in too deep through no real fault of his own and then is completely destroyed by the turning of fate.
However, that isn't a level of bleakness that has any appeal to me. I read Thomas Hardy in school because I had to. I read these Charlie Huston books because I spent money on them.
They were too graphically violent, the language was too rough and there was no hope for Henry Thompson from page 1. Simply not a kind of work that appeals to me."
"Fun read. The plot is in the spirit of Elmore Leonard - too many folks chasing a big bag of money, and double crosses that happen so fast you don't hive time to think about if they make sense. Also sparse in the same way Leonard is sparse. Not many pages devoted to setting the scene. It's all action and dialog.
Much more violence than you get with Leonard, but I found this book much more palatable than the Dennis Lehane I've read. Lehane delights in details about all manner of horrific acts; this one is much more clinical. Everyone's got a job to do, and some peoples' jobs involve casualties.
The start of a trilogy, but unlike The Strain, this one wraps up nicely at the end. Satisfying on its own."
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