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Misadventure
By (Author) Millard Kaufman
McSweeney's Publishing
McSweeney's Publishing
30th August 2011
First Trade Paper Edition
United States
General
Fiction
FIC
Paperback
224
Width 140mm, Height 210mm
298g
Jack Hopkins, veteran of the first Gulf War, doesn't like what he does for a living, but luckily he has two new job offersDarlene Hunt wants to pay him ten million dollars to kill her husband, and her husband wants to hire him to kill Darlene Hunt. Before he can figure out who to work for, though, the dead bodies have already started piling up. The second novel from Millard Kaufman the critically Oscar-nominated screenwriter, and World War II Marine Misadventure is a serpentine murder mystery set against a backdrop of LA real-estate schemes, ruby-wearing femmes fatale, and more love triangles than any one man should attempt to get into.