Cash Out [Paperback]

Paul Boray (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2002

Here's the story: San Francisco bookie Billy Rossi is $300,000 short. Some Chinatown thugs beat it out of him and his girlfriend, Sherri the showgirl. That's why he called down-and-out ex-cop John "Tomb" Tomei.

Here's the deal: Tomb needs money. Billy needs help. All Tomb has to do is go after the thugs and get the money back. Easy, right?

Here's the problem: Sherri the showgirl has disappeared. And Tomb's crazy friend Red, retired king of the Chinatown beat, has his own psychotic idea about settling the score. Worse yet, a high-powered Tong leader wants Tomb and Red dead.

When you're in this deep, there's only one thing to do:

Cash Out

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Onyx; First Edition edition (October 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451410165
• ISBN-13: 978-0451410160
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,512,838 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars excellent book by an "unknown" pseudonym author, January 10, 2010

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Ken McDaniel - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cash Out (Paperback)

According to the copyright page, and elsewhere I have checked on Amazon the real author is Jerry Kennealy also an unknown name to me although he has authored quite a few books, (especially of the "Nick Polo, private investigator series). This is a well-written thriller about an ex-SF policeman taking on a job to help a bookie who has been robbed by Oriental hoodlums in his home and his girl friend beaten. It is a good read and few should be disappointed with it. It has a substantial involvement with a Chinatown boss and political manipulations to oust incumbent mayor and replace him with a Chinese candidate. Good, interesting read paperback original.

2.0 out of 5 stars The Biggest Drawback, December 28, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Cash Out (Paperback)

The biggest drawback to this book is that "the Tomb," the hero, is merely an observer to much of what goes on. A whirl of things around him but the author seems overly careful not to have him do anything, shady or otherwise -- except for the breaking in to Chin's casino counting room.

There were also some real gloss overs. The murder in Vegas, and the juicy threat to Tomb the Vegas cop set up was never delivered. He smoothed it over. Pleeeese. The romance angle seemed abit forced, though this was suppose to show how he was a stand-up guy, interested in the female cop (just as wounded as he) and not the beautiful whores that seem to offer themselves up to him. All in all Tomb was a victim, and not very interesting.

Also, there is no such thing as a Chevrolet Saturn to my understanding, Saturn makes there own vehicles, and seeing that on the first page of the first chapter was a real turn off. ...