Introducing Junior Bender, the favorite burglar turned private investigator of Hollywood crooks
Junior Bender is a Los Angeles burglar with a magic touch. Since he first started breaking into houses at age fourteen, he's never once been caught. But now, after twenty-two years building an exemplary career, Junior has been blackmailed by Trey Annunziato, one of the most powerful crime bosses in LA, into acting as a private investigator on the set of Trey's porn venture, which someone keeps sabotaging. The star Trey has lined up to do all that's unwholesome on camera is Thistle Downing, America's beloved child star, who now lives alone in a drug-induced stupor, destitute and uninsurable. Her starring role will be the scandalous fall-from-grace gossip of rubberneckers across the country. No wonder Trey needs help keeping the production on track.
Junior knows what he should do—but doing the right thing will land him on the wrong side of LA's scariest mob boss. With the help of his precocious twelve-year-old daughter, Rina, and his criminal sidekick, ex-getaway driver Louie the Lost, Junior will have to pull off a miracle to get out of this mess.
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"Crashed was the first book I put on my Kindle when It came for Christmas last year. This book was poignant, rib achingly funny and very poignant. Junior Bender is the prototypical burglar with a heart; and Hallinan with his particularly wonderful use of language makes us care very deeply for someone who turns out not to be so evil after all. Hallinan's humor makes mincemeat out of danger, and miraculously saves the day. This book was very different from Hallinan's Poke Rafferty series or his older Simeon Grist series. Some things remains constant- we are pulled into the story, we care about the characters-deeply, and again Hallinan's use of language is simply hard to beat. Yes, I am a fan"
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Lil (5 out of 5 stars)