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Loading... Good Behavior (1985)by Donald E. Westlake
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This might be the best Dortmunder novel I've read yet. Hugely entertaining caper about how our at times incompetent serial criminal gets roped into breaking a nun out of captivity. ( ) Dortmunder, while running from the police after a botched robbery, falls into a convent nuns, all of whom have taken a vow of silence! In exchange for the nuns silence with the police, John agrees to rescue a nun who has been kidnapped by her wealthy father in his attempt to get her to leave the convent. And at the same time, he and his 'gang' are going to rob many of the business in the building she is being held captive! What could go wrong? Another fun book from the Dortmunder series, with a few new characters to spice things up! I liked this one quite a bit, and enjoyed the way some of the plot details are wrapped up in letter form in Chapter 50! A nice ending for John and May too! Well deserved! Dortmunder and his gang get in over their head again, this time involving a convent full of nuns on a vow of silence. Dortmunder was raised by nuns but these ones are the friendly kind and so he is inclined to help them. Not particularly memorable by Dortmunder standards but an amusing enough crime caper if you have time that needs passing. I’m a huge fan of Westlake’s books featuring hapless burglar John Dortmunder, but this one is special. Thieves, nuns (silent nuns, no less), a Trump-esque evil businessman, a cult deprogrammer, and a private army of mercenaries combine with an insane plot to rescue a kidnapped novice nun to make one of the funniest books I’ve ever read. no reviews | add a review
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It was supposed to be a simple caviar heist. Dortmunder is almost in the building when the alarm sounds, forcing him up the fire escape and onto the roof. He leaps onto the next building, smashing his ankle and landing in the den of the worst kind of creature he can imagine: nuns. Although decades removed from his Catholic orphanage, Dortmunder still trembles before the sisters' habits. But these nuns are kinder than the ones he grew up with. They bandage his wound, let him rest, and don't call the cops--for a price. The father of the youngest member of their order, disgusted by their vow of silence, has kidnapped his daughter, locked her in a tightly guarded penthouse apartment, and is attempting to convince her to renounce her faith. The nuns ask Dortmunder to rescue the girl. It's an impossible assignment but one he cannot refuse. No library descriptions found. |
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