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How can you make money from a painting that you don't own, can't steal, and couldn't fence even if you succeeded? What if you convince people you already had stolen it? An assortment of shady and brutal players in Collar Robber think that - leaving a corpse or two along the way - they can use that bright idea to gouge fifty million dollars from Jay Davidovich's employer, Transoxana Insurance Company. Davidovich, first met in 2012's Jail Coach, is a Loss Prevention Specialist. Fifty million would be a good loss to prevent.

Cynthia Jakubek from But Remember Their Names has jumped from the gilded drudgery of lawyering with a big Wall Street firm to the terrifying adventure of starting her own solo practice in Pittsburgh. One of her clients wants to help Davidovich - for a hefty price - and stay alive in the process. Another wants to get married in the Catholic Church to a fiancée who was briefly wed years before to someone who now has an interest in the painting. An annulment is needed.

As Davidovich and Jakubek face brawls on street corners and in court rooms, confrontations in brothels, confessionals, and Yankee Stadium luxury suites, and Tasers, machine guns, and religious vestments used as weapons, they have to remember that "take no prisoners" isn't always a metaphor...

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Art fraud, big money, dubious ethics, and calculated risk fill this intricate crime story from the pseudonymous Locke, who unites the protagonists from her two previous novels, Jay Davodovich (Jail Coach) and Cynthia Jakubek (But Remember Their Names). Jay, an insurance loss-prevention specialist, aims to help the Pittsburgh Museum of Twentieth Century Art fight a $50 million claim of illegitimate sale made by the heirs of the man who sold them a painting under Nazi pressure in 1938. Lawyer Cynthia has a client, Willy Szulz, with paperwork for the sale proving the price the museum paid was fair. Meanwhile, another client of Cynthia’s, Sean McGeoghan, wants museum counsel Tally Rand to facilitate a Catholic annulment of Tally’s marriage to Sean’s intended. Readers should be prepared for characters with anti-Semitic, racist, and misogynistic tendencies. While the plot pieces fit together well, there’s not enough glamour in a novel that’s more about dollars than about art. (Publisher's Weekly)

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  • PublisherPoisoned Pen Press
  • Publication date2015
  • ISBN 10 1464203342
  • ISBN 13 9781464203343
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages308
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