Hard Stop, Chris Knopf
Hard Stop, Chris Knopf
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Hard Stop
A Sam Acquillo Mystery

Author: Chris Knopf

Narrator: Richard Ferrone

Unabridged: 9 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/01/2009

Synopsis

After finally achieving some measure of peace and contentment on the tip of Oak Point overlooking the Little Peconic Bay, Sam Acquillo is yet again an accidental player in other peoples dramas. It takes him into the world of private security goons, predatory financiers, and lifestyles of young hedonists, some brave, some beautiful, all a bit lost. But this time theres some added incentive, an opportunity Sam thought hed never see again, the chance to get a piece of his old life back, the only piece he might actually want.

About Chris Knopf

Chris Knopf’s mystery novels have received exceptional awards and accolades, with critics likening his character Sam Aquillo to Dashiell Hammett’s Sam Spade, Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, and Robert B. Parker’s Spenser, while repeatedly comparing Knopf’s work to that of Elmore Leonard, John D. MacDonald, and Ross Macdonald. Two Time was one of thirteen mysteries listed as recommended summer reading in the New York Times Book Review, and Publishers Weekly chose it as one of the “Best 100 Books for 2006.” Head Wounds won the 2008 Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Mystery. Dead Anyway was listed on the 2012 Best Fiction lists of both Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews. Knopf is a sailor, cabinetmaker, and advertising executive in Connecticut. He and his wife Mary also spend considerable time at their Long Island home in Southampton.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dan

Sam's past reaches out to pull him back into the world of big money and even bigger egos, where the term "corporate intrigue" is redundant and ambition the only virtue. It seems a woman vital to the private life of a very important person has gone missing in the Hamptons. And it looks like the best......more

Goodreads review by Emily

Sam Acquillo left his corporate job several years ago under unpleasant circumstances. Suddenly, his former boss is asking Sam to help him find a woman who worked with the company, but has not been heard from in several weeks. Once Sam is presented with a puzzle, he can not stop until he has found th......more

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