Michigan Roll: A Waverly Thriller

THE MASTERS OF CRIME FICTION BET ON TOM KAKONIS€¦

€œKakonis can really write. In Waverly, he gives us a wonderful character in a brutal world,€ Tony Hillerman

€œMichigan Roll is fast, strong, harsh and beautiful,€ Donald Westlake

€œA wonderful novel €“ smart, light and mean,€ T. Jefferson Parker

"Tom Kakonis is a master of the low-life novel. Nobody does it better." Ross Thomas

€œA cold-deck nightmare of high-stakes peril,€ Daniel Woodrell

€¦AND A NEW KIND OF HERO IN AN UNFORGETTABLE THRILLER

Ex-con, professional poker player Timothy Waverly travels to Traverse City, Michigan for a break€¦and falls into bed with a seductress named Midnight. She€s an out-of-towner, too, there to rescue her self-destructive brother, who has stupidly ripped off a fortune in cocaine from a vicious Chicago mobster. Now she is being chased pursued by Shadow, a hemorrhoidal hitman who gleefully specializes in torture and rape, and Gleep, his muscle-bound henchman. The odds are stacked against her, but Waverly is a gambler who knows how to play them€¦

€œA sure narrative voice, a richly shaded hero and heroine, nightmare-vivid villains, and a plot paved with switchbacks and big curves add up to classy, if brutal, crime entertainment: this one cooks,€ Kirkus Reviews

"Aptly compared to Elmore Leonard, Kakonis builds exquisite tension." Publishers Weekly

€œOriginal, brutal, nightmarish. Kakonis is a sharp new gambler in the literary crap game. He just takes the pot,€
The New York Times