Bøger af Lou Berney

When an aimless drifter witnesses a case of child endangerment, he finds his purpose in seeking justice suspenseful and heart-wrenching thriller from the award-winning author of November Road.

JFK is dead, and Frank Guidry is running for his life. A long-time lieutenant to notorious New Orleans mob boss Carlos Marcello, Frank knows too much about the crime of the century: the assassination of the president. Within hours of the murder, everyone with ties to Marcello is disappearing, and Guidry knows he's next. With no good options, he hits the road.The first rule of running is ?don't stop,? but when Guidry sees a housewife on the side of the road with a broken-down car and two young daughters in the back seat, he sees the perfect disguise to cover his tracks. Charlotte is on the run too, from a stifling small-town life and a hopeless marriage. Posing as an insurance man, Guidry offers to help Charlotte reach her destination, and desperate, she accepts. It's an American story: two strangers meet to share the open road west, a dream, a hope?and find each other on the way. But Guidry's ruthless hunters are closing in on him. And if he can't bring himself to leave the woman he's come to love, it might get them all killed.

Set against the assassination of JFK, a poignant and evocative crime novel that centers on a desperate cat-and-mouse chase across 1960s America?a story of unexpected connections, daring possibilities, and the hope of second chances from the Edgar Award?winning author of The Long and Faraway GoneFrank Guidry's luck has finally run out.A loyal lieutenant to New Orleans mob boss Carlos Marcello, one of the most powerful and dangerous men in America, Guidry has learned that everybody is expendable. But now it's his turn?he knows too much about the crime of the century, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.Within hours of JFK's murder, people with ties to Marcello are turning up dead and Guidry suspects he's next: he was in Dallas on an errand for the boss less than two weeks before the president was shot. With few good options, Guidry hits the road to Las Vegas to see an old acquaintance, a ruthless man who hates Marcello enough to help Guidry vanish. Maybe.Guidry knows that the first rule of running is ?don't stop,? but when he catches sight of a woman on the side of the road with a broken-down car, two young daughters and a dog in the backseat, he sees the perfect disguise, a way to cover his tracks and outrun the hit men on his tail. Posing as an insurance salesman, Guidry offers to help Charlotte reach her destination, California. If she accompanies him to Vegas, he can help her get a new car.For Charlotte, it's more than a car?it's an escape. She's on the run, too, from a stifling existence in small-town Oklahoma and a husband who's a hopeless drunk. It's an American story: two strangers meet to share the open road west, a dream, a hope?and find each other on the way. Charlotte is drawn to a man who's open-minded and kind; Guidry is attracted to a woman who's smart and funny. He learns that she's determined to give herself and her kids a new life; she can't ever know that he's desperate to leave his old one behind.But fugitives shouldn't fall in love, especially with each other. A road isn't just a road: it's a trail, and Guidry's relentless and murderous hunters are closing in on him. Guidry discovers that he doesn't just want to survive, he wants to really live, maybe for the first time.Everyone's expendable, or they should be, but now Guidry can't abandon the woman and two little girls he's come to love.And it might get all of them killed.

Like Carl Hiaasen, Berney delights in the cartoonish. Like Elmore Leonard, he can drive a plot. What sets him apart is how well he evokes love, making the romanceas compelling as the mystery.Boston GlobeLou Berney immediately earned a seat of honor at the mystery masters table with his crackling caper novel, Gutshot Straighta lightning-fast, fiendishly clever suspenser that screamed for a sequel. And here it is. Former professional wheel man Charles Shake Bouchon is back, living in the Caribbean paradise of Belize with his lawless past far behind himuntil a gunshot tears through his beachside restaurant and hes on the run again. A twisting tale filled with lawmen, con men, and hit men; a beautiful but deadly FBI agent; and a murderous thug named Baby Jesus, Whiplash River recalls the best of the off-the-wall crime fiction impresariosElmore Leonard, Carl Hiaasen, James W. Hall, Robert Ferrigno, Tim Dorseywhile establishing its own unique orbit in the noir universe.

"Enestående!"- Stephen KingFrank Guidry er løbet tør for held.Som loyal fikser for New Orleans’ mafiaboss Carlos Marcello ved Guidry bedre end nogen, at ingen er uundværlige, men nu er turen kommet til ham, for han ved for meget om århundredets forbrydelse: mordet på præsident John F. Kennedy.Få timer efter attentatet på JFK er alle med bånd til Marcello døde, og Guidry har en stærk mistanke om, at han er den næste på listen. Han var nemlig i Dallas i et ærinde for bossen, mindre end to uger før præsidenten blev skudt. Guidry ser ingen anden udvej end at tage benene på nakken og flygte til Las Vegas, hvor en gammel forretningspartner – som hader Marcello af et godt hjerte – måske er den eneste, han nu kan stole på vil hjælpe ham med at gå i skjul.Guidry ved udmærket godt, at den første regel, når man er på flugt, er aldrig at stoppe op, men da han ser en smuk husmor i vejsiden med en skadet bil, to små døtre og en hund på bagsædet, øjner han den perfekte forklædning og en oplagt måde til at dække sine spor fra de håndlangere, som Marcello har sendt efter ham. Guidry udgiver sig for at være forsikringsmand, og han tilbyder Charlotte at hjælpe hende frem til deres fælles destination.For Charlotte er der også meget på spil, og hun er ligeledes på flugt. Væk fra en kvælende og stillestående eksistens som husmor i Oklahoma City, og væk fra en alkoholiseret ægtemand.Og mens de hensynsløse forfølgere nærmer sig bagfra, rykker Guidry og Charlotte tættere sammen i en alliance, som kan koste dem begge livet.En klassisk amerikansk historie: To fremmede mødes og rejser mod vest i håbet om et nyt liv – og finder hinanden undervejs.

Professional wheel man Charles "Shake" Bouchon is too nice a guy for the life he's led and not nice enough for any other. Fresh out of prison, he's supposed to deliver a package to Vegas strip-club owner Dick "the Whale" Moby and pick up a briefcase for Shake's former boss and lover, Alexandra Ilandryan, pakhan of L.A.'s Armenian mob. But when the "package" turns out to be Gina, a wholesome young housewife, Shake decides to set her free?a move as noble as it is boneheaded. Now Shake and Gina are on the run in Panama?looking to unload the briefcase's unusual contents while outmaneuvering two angry crime bosses, a heartbroken ex-linebacker, and a sadistic thug plagued by erectile superfunction. And Shake's learning that Gina is less wholesome and more complicated than he initially imagined.

In the summer of 1986, two tragedies rocked Oklahoma City. Six movie-theater employees were brutally killed in an armed robbery. Then a teenage girl vanished from the annual state fair. Neither crime was ever solved.Twenty-five years later, the reverberations of those unsolved cases continue to echo through the lives of those devastated by the crimes. Wyatt, the one teenage employee who inexplicably survived the movie-theater massacre, is now a private investigator in Las Vegas. A case unexpectedly brings him back to a hometown and a past he's tried to escape?and drags him deeper into the harrowing mystery of the movie-house robbery that left six of his friends dead.Like Wyatt, Julianna struggles with the past?specifically the day her beautiful older sister, Genevieve, disappeared at the fair. When Julianna discovers that one of the original suspects has resurfaced, she'll stop at nothing to find answers.As Wyatt's case becomes more complicated and dangerous, and Julianna seeks answers from a ghost, their obsessive quests not only stir memories of youth and first love, but also begin to illuminate dark secrets of the past. Even if they find the truth, will it help them understand what happened and why they were left behind that long and faraway gone summer? Will it set them free?or ultimately destroy them?