Herbies Game, Timothy Hallinan
Herbies Game, Timothy Hallinan
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Herbie's Game
A Junior Bender Mystery

Author: Timothy Hallinan

Narrator: Peter Berkrot

Unabridged: 10 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/15/2014


Synopsis

It's everyday business when Wattles, the San Fernando Valley's top "executive crook," sets up a hit. He establishes a chain of criminals to pass along the instructions and the money, thereby ensuring that the hitter doesn't know who hired him. Then one day Wattles finds his office safe open and a single item missing: the piece of paper listing the crooks in the chain. When people associated with the chain begin to pop up dead, the only person Wattles can turn to for help is Junior Bender, professional burglar and begrudging private eye for crooks.But Junior already knows exactly who took Wattles' list; the signature is obvious. It was Herbie Mott, Junior's burglar mentor and second father—but when Junior seeks him out to discuss the matter, he finds him very unpleasantly murdered. Junior follows the links in the chain back toward the killer, and as he does, he learns disturbing things about Herbie's hidden past. Just how much of the life he's lived for the past twenty years has been of his own making, and how much of it was actually Herbie's game?

About Timothy Hallinan

Timothy Hallinan is the Edgar and Macavity Award–nominated author of over a dozen widely praised books, including the Poke Rafferty Bangkok thrillers and the Junior Bender series. In 2010 he conceived and edited an e-book of original short stories by twenty mystery writers, Shaken: Stories for Japan, with 100 percent of the proceeds going to Japanese disaster relief.

About Peter Berkrot

A veteran of stage and screen, Peter Berkrot's career spans four decades. Highlights include feature roles in Caddyshack and Showtime's Brotherhood, and appearances on America's Most Wanted and Unsolved Mysteries. His voice can be heard on television, radio, video games, documentaries, and industrials. He is a prominent acting coach and a regular contributor to the award-winning news program Frontline produced by WGBH in Boston. Peter served as director of narration for the Emmy-nominated The Truth About Cancer. Peter has recorded over 170 audiobooks, over 100 for children. He has been nominated for an Audie Award and has received a number of AudioFile Earphones Awards and starred reviews. His favorite titles include Toby and the Secrets of the Tree by Timotee de Fombelle, Unholy Night by Seth Grahame-Smith, The Accident by Linwood Barclay, and the Last Policeman trilogy by Ben H. Winters.


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“Professional burglar Junior Bender has taken a case seeking an incriminating cheat sheet that sequentially names the criminals (like a chain letter) involved in a murder for hire…Devoted fans of Hallinan‘s rollicking LA-based series will grab up number four.” Library Journal (starred review)

“Junior Bender takes on his most personal case yet in Hallinan’s rollicking fourth mystery featuring the master safe—and joke—cracker…Hallinan injects what could be a stale revenge tale with his signature dry wit, making Bender a laconic antihero to admire.” Publishers Weekly

“Peter Berkrot is a solid narrator with great tough-guy voices…Herbie would approve.” AudioFile

“A whirligig of a caper...Junior, drop by anytime. The valuables will be in plain sight.” Booklist