Watch Your Back! (Dortmunder Novels)
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ISBN: 0892968028 / Publisher: Mysterious Press, April 2005
John Dortmunder and his crew find the perfect score in a lavish New York apartment, but when they discover that their favorite bar is on the Mafia's hit list, they are forced to split their time fighting the mob and robbing the rich.
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It's a long way from the island of Manhattan to the island resort where Preston Fareweather has his hedonistic hideout - avoiding the legal prosecutions of five embittered ex-wives and enjoying the attentions of the prettiest gold diggers who happen to come his way. A terrible human being, Preston makes the terrible mistake of getting friendly with an equally dyspeptic personality: a New York fence named Arnie Albright.Arnie went to the island paradise to become a happier man. It worked. After a week with Preston, Arnie comes home to New York with a whole new attitude and a proposition for his associate John Dortmunder: a can't miss, million-dollar robbery - of Preston's nearly unguarded, art-filled Fifth Avenue penthouse. With Arnie taking a measly thirty percent cut, it's practically charity for the master thief.But when Dortmunder and his clean-up crew get together to plan the heist, they quickly get distracted. The place they meet, the place they have always met and always will meet - the O.J. Bar & Grill - has fallen into the clutches of a mob crew. Suddenly a billionaire from Fifth Avenue and a would-be Tony Soprano from New Jersey have one thing in common: John Dortmunder is after them both at the same time...and disaster can't be far behind.
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