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The Contract [Paperback]

David Levien (Author)
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Publication Date: 19 Jan 2012

THE COMPANY:

Troubled former cop Frank Behr is working for an exclusive Indianapolis investigation company, when he finds himself on a protection detail for Bernard "Bernie Cool" Kolodnik.

THE CLIENT:

Bernard "Bernie Cool" Kolodnik is a hard driving business mogul on the verge of making a move into big-time politics.

THE CORRUPT:

An attempt on Kolodnik's life is quickly buried by the police. But Behr wants the truth, and his hunt will put him a collision course with a dangerous sociopath . . .

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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam Press (19 Jan 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0593065816
  • ISBN-13: 978-0593065815
  • Product Dimensions: 15.3 x 2.2 x 23.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 711,487 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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THE CONTRACT is an electric crime novel from one of Hollywood's top screenwriters. (Please note this book is called THIRTEEN MILLION DOLLAR POP in the US)
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4.0 out of 5 stars Pacy actioner 28 Jan 2013
By Michael Finn TOP 500 REVIEWER
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Taking a last minute protection detail from a colleague, ex Indianapolis cop and former P.I. Frank Behr doesn't know what he's letting himself in for. Now working for the Caro group , a security firm, Frank spends most of his working days at a desk, compiling security checks for contracted firms and organisations. He's bored to tears but circumstances and a pregnant girlfriend don't leave him too many other options. The security detail turns out to be a lot less routine that it should have been and he's ambushed in an underground car park by a lone shooter with some very fancy weaponry. Frank foils the hit but the shooter gets away... and beyond a lot of pats on the back nobody seems to want to investigate. Now this is where I have my only quibble with the book. Motivation. Frank's motivation. Usually the plot dictates that the protagonist has to take the case or bad things are going to happen to them as a result. This one has nothing of the sort. In fact it's quite clear from the outset that poking your nose into things is going to cost you at the very least your job, and it's going to paint targets on your back, your girlfriend's back and one for that little unborn life too. He's confronted several times and asked just what are his motivations and the best he can offer are vague notions of things being personal and even just outright boredom. Maybe, as somebody suggests, he's just a glory hound.
Other than that the book is very entertaining; a twisty corporate shenanigans plot, a lethal Welsh hitman, lots of action and a hero who won't lie down. This is the third in David Levien's series featuring Frank Behr and my copy was titled The Contract even though it's previously been published as 13 Million Dollar Pop, though I guess that doesn't translate too well outside the States.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Full of action but needs some work on the humans 12 Jan 2013
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This is the same book as "13 Million Dollar Pop" published in the US. I will never understand this British impulse to rename books from their original title when they are published in Great Britain. I don't know how many times I have bought the same book from the US and from GB thinking that the author had a new one published.

This book is a full speed action story. It would do nicely as an action movie with some huge actor playing the main hero Frank Behr. This is not Mr. Leviens first book about him, I have two other ones in my library (City of the Sun, Where the Dead Lay) but since it was more than two years ago since I read them I was somewhat hazy on the details of who Mr. Frank Behr was.

This turned out to be a major problem because Mr. Levien has almost totally forgotten to tell the reader anything about him. You start reading the book and have not a clue what he looks like (except from being big) or his background. In the middle of the book we are informed that he has a mustache and that is about it! Later in the book we are informed that his first son was killed but nothing about that incident is presented. But if the main hero is hard to see in front of you his wife/partner is even harder. He is together with a nine month pregnant woman and that is about all you get to know about her.

This is very irritating sine in order to follow the story you need to see them in front of you. Frank Behr is also a not very likable character. He is bored, frustrated, non-interested and simply a big enigma. His actions towards his highly pregnant wife/partner are to say the least indifferent. He seams just not to care about her or his future son. Considering his choices a lot of his activities are hard to understand. It looks like his wife and future son is second to his need to investigate an incident he is involved in.

But this is a full blown action story. As such it is well crafted and there is no let up. There are some very bad villains and the bodies are piling up. You are caught up in the drama and it is hard to put the book down towards the end. If it was not for his problems with developing the characters it would be a solid five stars.

Without telling you the end I am guessing there will be more books about Mr. Behr since Mr. Levien wrote this option into it.
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