Exact Revenge
by Tim Green
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ISBN-13:
9780759513730
- Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
- Publication date: 05/01/2005
- Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
- Format: eBook
- Pages: 368
- Sales rank: 243,443
- File size: 477 KB
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- Tim Green's most recent novel, The First 48 (0-446-53144-8), was published in Warner hardcover in 2/04 and was a New York Times extended bestseller. It has grossed nearly 71,000 copies. - The Fifth Angel (0-446-53085-9, Warner, 2/03), Green's previous novel, hit the New York Times extended bestseller list and has over 450,000 copies in print combined. - The Fourth Perimeter, published in hardcover in 2002, was a New York Times extended bestseller and People Page-turner of the Week. It has close to 480,000 copies in combined print. - The author is a featured commentator on NPR and Fox Sports, and a regular contributor to Salon.com and USA Today.
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Publishers Weekly
The world is Raymond White's oyster: a working-class boy from Syracuse who made good, he's got a Princeton degree, rugged good looks and the gorgeous girlfriend to match, and partner status at a law firm by age 25. But in this lively modern-day retelling of The Count of Monte Cristo, just as White is poised to run for Congress, he is framed for murder, convicted and thrown into solitary confinement. After almost two decades of hard time, White is befriended by a fellow prisoner, lifer, "thief and part-time murderer," Lester Cole. "Exact revenge.... If you don't do it, you'll be a professional victim. You exact it and it's exact. Not just a reaction, but planned out. Precise. It needs to send a message," Cole advises, beginning his tutelage about life, literature and the location of a billion dollars worth of loot that they'll split after they escape. Cole dies in the breakout through the sewers of the Big House, but White goes on to retrieve the money and put in motion his reprisal plan against the former colleagues who framed him for murder. White takes down his enemies one by one in a fun, fast-paced update on the Dumas formula that will have readers booing the bad guys and rooting for the wronged hero. Agent, Esther Newberg. (May) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
Library Journal
A political candidate framed for murder stews in jail, plotting his revenge. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
Kirkus Reviews
After almost 20 years in prison, an innocent man escapes to hunt down the cabal that framed him. Quotes from The Count of Monte Cristo appropriately introduce the multiple sections of the story, which begins with the revelation that hero and narrator Raymond White is struggling to survive in upstate New York's Auburn Prison. It then flashes back more than a decade, when the half-Native-American Raymond is a rising star in both his Syracuse law firm and the local Republican Party. His reclusive blue-collar dad doesn't even have a phone and disdains Raymond's affluent lifestyle but is grudgingly proud of his son's achievements. Supported by a handful of youngish political power brokers-Bob Rangle, Paul Russo and Frank Steffano-Raymond preps to succeed ailing Syracuse Congressman Roger Williamson, a fellow Princeton alumnus. When Raymond visits Williamson, who's linked to an IV, he reluctantly agrees to carry an envelope full of cash to Williamson's mistress, Celeste Oliver. When he delivers it, Celeste offers herself to him, as Williamson's successor. The moralistic Raymond, thinking also of beautiful, devoted fiancee Lexis, deflects the pass. Next day, Celeste is found murdered, and forensic evidence points to Raymond as the killer. In short order, he's off the fast track to fame and on to prison. While there, Lexis marries Frank, who, Raymond learns, has strong links to organized crime. Frank and Lexis establish a glamorous life in Manhattan. Raymond, meanwhile, gets an education in survival and also in the deeper meaning of life from wise old inmate Lester. Much prison time is also given to plotting retribution. After 18 years, Raymond escapes, and radical plastic surgery allows him toget close to his quarry, while a compassionate new love named Helena smooths the transition into society and he implements his methodical revenge. Green (The First 48, 2004, etc.) craftily attenuates the suspense and works some nice wrinkles into a familiar formula.