The Professionals by Owen Laukkanen

The Professionals by Owen Laukkanen

Four friends, caught in a terrible job market, joke about turning to kidnapping to survive. And then, suddenly, it's no joke. For two years, the strategy they devise works like a charm--until they kidnap the wrong man.

Now two groups are after them--the law, in the form of veteran state investigator Kirk Stevens and hotshot young FBI agent Carla Windermere, and an organized crime outfit looking for payback. As they crisscross the country in a series of increasingly explosive confrontations, each of them is ultimately forced to recognize the truth: The real professionals, cop or criminal, are those who are willing to sacrifice everything.

Owen Laukkanen was born in Vancouver. After graduating from university in 2006, he answered an ad on Craigslist for a summer job at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas as a poker tournament reporter for a poker website. At the end of the summer, they offered him a full-time job. You wouldn t think you could make a living at this, but you would be wrong. For the next three years he traveled around the world, reporting from the most luxurious casinos of Monaco and Macau and Australia to the sketchiest card rooms of California and Atlantic City. In 2009, having seen his fill, he quit to concentrate on fiction. He also spends summers as a deckhand on the boats of his father s and his uncle s, both commercial fishermen. He is at work on more novels.
His other Stevens and Windermere novels are The Professionals, Criminal Enterprise, Kill Fee, and The Watcher in the Wall. The Professionals was nominated for the Barry Award and the International Thriller Writers Award for best first novel, as well as the Spinetingler Award for Best Novel: New Voice. Criminal Enterprise was nominated for the ITW Award for best novel. Both books, as well as Kill Fee, appeared on several best-of-the-year lists.

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ISBN 13	9780399157899
ISBN 10	0399157891
Title	The Professionals
Author	Owen Laukkanen
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Putnam Publishing Group,U.S.
Year published	2012-05-17
Number of pages	378
Prizes	Short-listed for Anthony Awards (First Novel) 2013, Short-listed for Thriller Awards (First Novel) 2013
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