The Ice Harvest, Scott Phillips
The Ice Harvest, Scott Phillips
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The Ice Harvest

Author: Scott Phillips

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 4 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2006

Synopsis

Its Christmas Eve, 1979, in Wichita, and Charlie Arglist, a crooked lawyer and stripclub owner, is drunkenly making the rounds before he blows town for good. Getting progressively drunker and deeper in trouble, Charlie needs to drop off a photograph of a local official in a compromising position and steal some drug money. Before its all over, a lot of people are going to wind up dead.

About Scott Phillips

Scott Phillips is a screenwriter, photographer, and the author of eight novels and a short story collection. His bestselling debut novel, The Ice Harvest, was a New York Times Notable Book and was adapted as a major motion picture starring John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton. He is the winner of the California Book Award, as well as being a finalist for the Edgar Award, the Hammett Prize, and the CWA Gold Dagger Award. Scott was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas, and lived for many years in France. He now lives with his wife and daughter in St. Louis, Missouri.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Regina

Oh, the trials and tribulations of being a seasonal reader. Each year you have to dig deeper and deeper into Santa’s bag of books to find holiday-themed stories that aren’t cozy mysteries, traditional tales, or Hallmarky rom-coms. It’s from those depths that I pulled Scott Phillips’s 2000 novel, The......more

Goodreads review by Kemper

It's Christmas Eve 1979 in Wichita, Kansas, and attorney Charlie Arglist is trying to kill some time before fleeing town with the money he and his partner have stolen from the local crime boss they work for. A huge storm is complicating matters, but Charlie doesn't let that stop him from visiting ba......more

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