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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780804115414
ISBN number: 0804115419
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 384
Printing Date: 2002-04
Publishing house: Ballantine Books
Release Date: April 30, 2002
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'Thomas Perry just keeps getting better,' said Tony Hillerman, about Sleeping Dogs--and in this superb new novel by one of America's best thriller writers, Jane Whitefield takes on the mafia, and its money.
Jane Whitefield, the fearless 'guide' who helps people in trouble disappear, make victims vanish,has just begun her quiet new life as Mrs. Carey McKinnon, when she is called upon again, to face her toughest opponents yet. Jane must try to save a young girl fleeing a deadly mafioso. Yet the deceptively simple task of hiding a girl propels Jane into the center of horrific events, and pairs her with Bernie the Elephant, the mafia's man with the money. Bernie has a photographic memory, and in order to undo an evil that has been growing for half a century,he and Jane engineer the biggest theft of all time, stealing billions from hidden mafia accounts and donating the money to charity. Heart-stopping pace, fine writing, and mesmerizing characters combine in Blood Money to make it the best novel yet by the writer called 'one of America's finest storytellers,'(San Francisco Examiner).
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Penzler Pick, March 2000: When Thomas Perry won his Edgar for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America in 1983, anyone who'd read The Butcher's Boy cheered. That remarkable tale of a likable hit man stayed in one's mind long after the last page had been turned. Now with nine more highly original thrillers to his credit, Perry still knows how to keep us enthralled and, even better, surprised.
After several standalone titles, Perry began to produce a series unlike any other, giving us in Jane Whitefield a heroine that I'd have to imagine many of Hollywood's hippest young stars are fighting to play. Introduced in Sleeping Dogs, Jane is a 'guide' of a very special kind, a sort of warrior-goddess capable of the most daring feats of cunning and courage who by day pursues a satisfying life off the radar as a suburban surgeon's wife. Her ordinary existence is, in fact, so contented--and her husband so worried for her safety when she's helping mortally threatened men, women, and children--that each time she's approached with a desperate case by a new victim of evil, her very first instinct is to say no. But there would be no series if she did, and we would miss her intricately assembled exploits.
Picture the Scarlet Pimpernel looking like the singer Buffy Ste. Marie (Jane's of native American heritage) and equally skilled at disguise and seat-of-the-pants strategy. Isn't that the sort of companion you'd welcome if you were on the run from the Mob with $20 billion (that's with a 'b') of their money, its secret whereabouts all stored mnemonically in your head? Maybe you'd rather have the U.S. Marine Corps on your side, but if that's not an option, newcomers to the Jane Whitefield books will quickly learn (and her fans already know) that she can pull it off on her own. A wonderfully entertaining element of these original adventures is that Jane's guiding principle is simplicity. Thus, the reader's vicarious thrills lie in watching the process, the twists and turns of her schemes and, above all, her amazing capacity for forethought.
Blood Money, like all the novels by Perry, works equally well on the level of character study as it does in nail-biting suspense. The novels can be read as much for their remarkable insights into human nature as for the excitement of a first-rate thriller. Surely Perry ranks among the very top of the crime-writing fraternity. --Otto Penzler
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A Jane Whitefield by Thomas Perry is always a delight. This time out even though she'd promised herself to remain at home, Jane has a teenager and a septuagenarian to help disappear.
Fiction reading entails a suspension of belief, for this one the flaw is five mafia families using the same accountant. But it makes for fun when said accountant fakes his own death and takes off with the money. Running from everyone around the country Jane and her "friends" launder the money and endow charities.
BLOOD MONEY by Thomas Perry keeps the reader guessing right through the surprise ending.
Nash Black, author of WRITING AS A SMALL BUSINESS and SINS OF THE FATHERS.
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Thomas Perry is a very imaginative writer. The character, indeed the whole concept of a guide who helps people hide is unique and therefore interesting to one who spends a lot of time reading suspense and mystery novels. My only complaint is that Jane is too good - the reader never doubts that she will get out of any jam, so the suspense is somewhat deflated. But the writing and the story more than make up for this.
As far as the presentation of the Mafia as a powerful, efficient machine, well, just suspend your disbelief and you'll do fine. It's certainly more interesting than the myth of the invincible US military we are subjected to in countless boring novels.
I'm looking for more Thomas Perry right now...
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As an avid Perry fan who's been reading the Jane Whitfield stories since the very first came out, this is my very first disappointment. It's still a decent light read, but somehow Perry loses his way.
The biggest flaw is that the lengthy discussions of intramural squabbling among Mafia families doesn't tie in well with the pursuit of Jane and her charges. Perry should have either had Jane take advantage of the mutual mistrust among the families, or made it the central thread of a separate book. Instead, we bounce from the usual cross country hide-and-seek with a series of scenes involving Mafia guys arguing.
Perry's shows his strengths in his descriptions of settings, and of some of the characters - notably Bernie Lupus (I can't get over the name) and the young girl Jane is protecting. But, for the very first time, he makes the bad guys seem dull.
Having produced so many great stories, I'll forgive him for this one and hope that he returns to his usual form.
A good summer read. Or read it on a plane. Buy the paperback.
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This is the last-- and least-- of the Jane Whitefield novels. Enjoyable, but it becomes repetitive. The four novels that preceded this one are better: 5 star reads. And even better are the early Perrys, if you can track them down: Butcher's Boy, Metzger's Dog, Big Fish, and Island. So, by all means read this one, but don't start here: go to the front of the line.
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Jane Whitefield returns in what may be her last adventure. I will be sorry to see her go but I can understand what the author wants to accomplish. In this latest adventure, Jane is retired from the guide business and just wants to be a happy housewife with her husband, Dr. Carey McKinnon. She is a one-woman witness protection program who knows how to hide people permanently and lead them to work new lives. She is `retired' but just like in the Godfather movies just as she gets out she gets dragged back in. In this case it involves Rita Shelford, a former hotel cleaning lady who is now running from the mob.
Bernie "The Elephant" Lupus has just died. He worked as a mob banker who does not use paper. He relies on his expansive photographic and eidetic memory to remember bank accounts and passwords. The mob is panicky because the only person Bernie ever trusted was Rita and they want to know what she knows and try to get some of their money back. After some false starts, Rita finds Jane and asks for her help. Unfortunately so does Bernie. News of his demise was greatly exaggerated.
Jane travels all over the country trying to hide Bernie and Rita. They also came up with the plan to take all of the mob's money and give everything away to charity. Once the mob finds out they will do whatever it takes to protect their interests. There is a lot of suspense and action in this story. You do not have to read previous novels to understand this one but I guarantee that once you read BLOOD MONEY you will try to find her other adventures. Thomas Perry's other novels are just as good and I suggest you give them a shot.
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