The Cleanup.The Cleanup Sean Doolittle Sean Doolittle is a First baseman who was drafted by the Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball 41st overall in the 2007 Major League Baseball Draft.[1] Dell 1745 Broadway, 24th fl., NY, NY 10019 0440242827 $6.99 www.randomhouse.com 800-726-0600 Matt Worth is a cop in Omaha. He is on probation for messing up--the latest incident: punching a detective who is sleeping with Matt's ex-wife. As punishment he is assigned to the graveyard shift graveyard shift n. 1. A work shift that runs during the early morning hours, as from midnight to 8 a.m. 2. The workers on such a shift. Noun 1. at a local supermarket that has been robbed a couple of times. To keep busy, he bags groceries and becomes friendly with a checkout clerk. The clerk has a boyfriend who bashes her around one time too many. She clobbers him to death. Matt becomes involved when she asks his help. He undertakes a cover-up of the murder, taking the body in the victim's car to his ex-con brother's junkyard in the next state. There, the brother incinerates the corpse and chops chops the jowls or flesh of lips and jaw in dogs. up the car--but not before discovering a quarter of a million dollars in cash. From this point on the plot evolves in all kinds of unexpected twists and turns. At each step of the way, it looks like Matt is going to be discovered. But each time he develops a new subterfuge sub·ter·fuge n. A deceptive stratagem or device: "the paltry subterfuge of an anonymous signature" Robert Smith Surtees. , half-truth, fact or excuse. The action continues unabated un·a·bat·ed adj. Sustaining an original intensity or maintaining full force with no decrease: an unabated windstorm; a battle fought with unabated violence. right down to the final page, and so should you. Recommended. |
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