The Hemingway Thief, Shaun Harris
The Hemingway Thief, Shaun Harris
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The Hemingway Thief

Author: Shaun Harris

Narrator: Eric Michael Summerer

Unabridged: 7 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/20/2016


Synopsis

Novelist Henry "Coop" Cooper is contemplating a new book between sipping rum and lounging on a Baja beach with hotel owner Grady Doyle. When Grady tries to save a drunk from two thugs, Coop tags along for the sake of a good story. The drunk is Ebbie Milch, a small-time thief on the run in Mexico because he has stolen the never-before-seen first draft of Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast from a wealthy rare book dealer.

The stolen manuscript is more than just a rare piece of literary history. It reveals clues to an even bigger prize: the location of a suitcase the young, unpublished Hemingway lost in Paris in 1922. A year's worth of his stories had vanished, never to be seen again. Until now.

But Coop and Grady aren't the only ones with their eyes on this elusive literary prize, and what starts as a hunt for a legendary writer's lost works becomes a deadly adventure. For Coop this story could become the book of a lifetime . . . if he lives long enough to write it.

About Shaun Harris

Shaun Harris grew up in New England and has a degree in American studies and film and television from the University of Notre Dame. He now lives in rural Wisconsin with his wife and two kids.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lisa on May 29, 2019

I went to see a library program featuring Mr. Harris talking about his novel, and bought the mystery. The novel is a slapstick, satirically voiced and rollicking Mexican adventure filled with every cliché, plenty of booze and mild drug use, and locker room talk. A down and out successful pop culture......more

Goodreads review by J.R. on June 29, 2016

What can go wrong when a frustrated writer, an ex-pat innkeeper/former cop or gangster and a confessed thief and conman team up over a cache of lost Hemingway writings? Trouble for them and fun for you. Henry 'Coop' Cooper, who churns out vampire romance novels, is taking a break in sunny Baja and hop......more

Goodreads review by Tonstant on June 30, 2016

The Hemingway Thief is an intriguing and original speculative mystery-thriller about the most famous theft in literature, the infamous theft of Ernest Hemingway’s entire oeuvre from a train station platform. Written by first-time novelist Shaun Harris, it is one of those thrillers that starts off at......more

Goodreads review by Criminal on July 21, 2016

The Hemingway Thief is a tight, well crafted thriller, which, like all good books, has characters who are neither entirely good nor completely bad. A bit, I understand, like Hemingway himself. The year is 1922. The place: Paris. Hadley is instructed by her husband to gather up all his work, place it......more

Goodreads review by Jo on February 09, 2017

Ernest Hemingway famously lost all his early, unpublished stories in 1923 when the suitcase containing them was stolen from a Paris train station. Hemingway’s wife, Hadley, was taking the writings to her husband when she decided to buy a bottle of water and left the case unattended. The suitcase fil......more