Foolproof (Linford Mystery Library) [Large Print] [Paperback]

Philip Daniels (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1989 | Series: Linford Mystery Library

Bright young financial wizard Jeremy Newton has found the perfect way to make his fortune while he is still young--but it involves access to insider information and a partner to carry out the criminal side of the scheme.

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Succinct and effortless plotting mixes with several crafty twists in this slick variation on the hunt for the proverbial easy score. London investment expert Jeremy Newton comes to accomplished criminal Charlie Hurst with a plan that just can't fail: Charlie stages fake burglaries during which he photographs the financial secrets that are the real targets of his illegal intrusions. Then Jeremy shrewdly invests based on the purloined info. But the caper-that-can't-miss does. Jeremy has a mistress and a nosy, jealous wife. Charlie has ambitions for a new lifestyle, and two of the muscle men in his employ are getting bored silly waiting for a score of their own. While readers might wish for additional detailing of the financial manipulations (we are forced to take Jeremy's expertise as a given), for the most part Daniels (Goldmine-London W.1) packs a lot of greed, lust and feverish upward mobility into a brief, attention-gripping tale.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Linford (February 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0708966330
• ISBN-13: 978-0708966334
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,804,636 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Simple But Effective Short Hard Boiled Crime Story, February 4, 2011

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James N Simpson (Gold Coast, QLD Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Foolproof (Hardcover)

Published back in 1981, this short, novella length tale is still very entertaining today. The references to an older time of share trading being a mystery to non brokers in the days before the internet, staff still getting paid in cash and the only way to make a call that won't show up on your telephone bill is to ring one payphone from another, and the carefree nature of sunbaking without worrying about skin cancer, all add to the enjoyment of this tale of trying to pull of the perfect high paying crime.

Basic plot revolves around, Charlie Hurst, a London underworld tough guy who after watching a documentary where younger lions killed the alpha male for the top spot knows his rein at the top will be challenged in the years ahead as he ages. Luckily for him a mysterious rich share trader has a scheme that will make them both rich. He needs Charlie to pull of house robberies and capture insider information documents on film. Using that information they'll both be rich with their gains in trading these shares. However as fans of this genre with authors like Richard Stark, James Pattinson and others know, there's always hurdles to pulling off a good plan. In Foolproof, those are an upherself cheating wife, who doesn't like not being informed of her husband's plans as well as underlings in the underworld who if they find out their boss is lowering himself to simple burglaries will know he doesn't have it anymore and is up for a deadly challenge of leadership.