Whiplash River, Lou Berney
Whiplash River, Lou Berney
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Whiplash River

Author: Lou Berney

Narrator: Jeff Gurner

Unabridged: 8 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 07/10/2012

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

“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 romance…as compelling as the mystery.”
—Boston GlobeLou Berney immediately earned a seat of honor at the mystery masters’ table with his crackling caper novel, Gutshot Straight—a 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 him—until a gunshot tears through his beachside restaurant and he’s 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 impresarios—Elmore Leonard, Carl Hiaasen, James W. Hall, Robert Ferrigno, Tim Dorsey—while establishing its own unique orbit in the noir universe.

About Lou Berney

Lou Berney is the multiple award–winning author of November Road, The Long and Faraway Gone, Double Barrel Bluff, Dark Ride, as well as Gutshot Straight and Whiplash River. His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. He lives in Oklahoma City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by James

This is the second very entertaining novel from Lou Berney featuring Charles "Shake" Bouchon, who first appeared in Gutshot Straight in 2010. Shake is a former wheel man and ex-con who's determined to put his checkered past behind him. He's made his way to the Caribbean paradise of Belize and realiz......more

Goodreads review by Jamie

Ten hours flat, start to finish. Ten hours and I stopped to eat lunch and to eat dinner and that was the problem! Both were food that took both hands and how could I eat but also keep reading? If I really, really liked Gutshot Straight, I loved loved loved this one. This guy is— hang with me here— th......more

Goodreads review by Carol

I thoroughly enjoyed Whiplash River by Lou Berney. It made me gasp and smile. It’s a romp, a caper, a slightly mad-cap thriller. Opening line: The view from the veranda was a killer. A sugar-sand beach, palm trees, the Caribbean glittering beneath a full moon. A wooden pier curved out over the water......more