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Hard Stop (Sam Acquillo Hamptons Mystery) [Hardcover]

Chris Knopf (Author)
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Sam Acquillo Hamptons Mystery May 1, 2009
Sam Acquillo is getting to be alot more sociable. People are constantly dropping by, including guys in black outfits with .45 automatics breaking into his cottage in the middle of the night.Though on doctor's orders to stay clear of violence and mayhem, Sam does what's needed to encourage a candid conversation with the home invader, with surprising results.
Suddenly Sam's past reaches out to pull him back into the world of big money and even bigger egos, where the term "corporate intrigue" is redundant and ambition the only virtue. It seems a person important to the private life of a very important person has gone missing in the Hamptons. And it looks like the best way to get her back is to extort Sam's cooperation.
After finally achieving some measure of peace and contentment on the tip of Oak Point, overlooking the Little Peconic Bay, Sam is yet again an accidental player in other people's dramas. It takes him into the world of private security goons, predatory financiers and lifestyles of young hedonists, some brave, some beautiful, all a bit lost. But this time there's some added incentive. An opportunity Sam thought he'd never see again. The chance to get a bit of his old life back. The only piece he might actually want.
With lawyer Jackie Swaitkowski and cop friend Joe Sullivan reluctantly in tow, and the beautiful Amanda Anselma, fisherman Paul Hodges and mutt Eddie Van Halen eager to lend a hand, Sam is back on the quest.This time with a few ambitions of his own, which lead him into something all his battles in the ring and corporate boardroom could never have preapared him for.

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Sam Acquillo, who left his job as head of the Technical Services and Support Division of Con Globe for the humdrum life of a skilled carpenter in the Hamptons, is still a magnet for trouble in Knopf's rewarding fourth mystery (after 2008's Head Wounds). George Donovan, Con Globe's chairman of the board, tries a carrot and stick approach to get Acquillo to find his missing girlfriend, Iku Kinjo, a brilliant and compelling consultant. Half of that ploy works, and Acquillo is drawn back into the deadly machinations of corporate intrigue, where the payoff may be wealth or death. Knopf blends familiar elements (cop ally; cop nemesis; bad ex-wife; beautiful, independent girlfriend) in unusually pleasing fashion and adds plenty of original touches as well. Aside from his surprising computer illiteracy, Acquillo is a savvy operator who loves problem solving and has the tenacity of a pit bull. His penchant for intriguing predicaments bodes well for a long and successful series. (May)
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Starred Review. In his fourth outing (after Head Wounds), corporate dropout-turned-carpenter/PI Sam Acquillo is forced to look for the missing girlfriend of his former boss, George Donovan. As Sam traces the successful young businesswoman to a house on Long Island shared with a bunch of Gen-Xers from Manhattan, he uncovers what looks like dirty business dealings. Knopf is very much a contemporary crime writer, revealing the dangers of the world of big deals, commercial espionage, and the barracudas hanging out for all they can get. For readers who enjoy hard-boiled mysteries in the tradition of Raymond Chandler and Robert Parker. [Knopf has contracted a two-book spinoff series with St. Martin's based on Acquillo's friend Jackie Swaitkowski.—Ed.]
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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Permanent Press (May 1, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 157962183X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1579621834
  • Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.8 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #778,075 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars I want more Sam Aquillo!, March 13, 2010
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This was the best of the 4 Sam aquillo novels. I love them all and look forward to reading a new one every spring. Maybe i love the character and the setting so much that it was just so much fun to be back on the east end with sam and his lawn chairs, tumblers of vodka and the little peconic bay. I havent read short squeeze yet but i am really dissapointed that Sam is not the main character. I like jackie but only as his sidekick and i cant believe his next novel wont be set in the Hamptons and be about Sam but rather the Jersey Shore? If you like nelson demille's John Corey youll like Sam Aquillo
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Not my favorite of the series but still good, October 18, 2009
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This review is from: Hard Stop (Sam Acquillo Hamptons Mystery) (Hardcover)
First Sentence: I didn't like anything about that big, dumb, ugly SUV.

Sam Acquillo is hired by his former boss, George Donovan, to find his missing girlfriend, Iku Kinjo. He tracks her to a house on Long Island, where a number of young successful Manhattan business people are living. However, it soon becomes apparent there is more than a missing girl involved in this case.

I wasn't as taken by this book as I have been by previous books in the series. I do like the character of Sam, but am getting a bit bored with the `can't-make-a-commitment' protagonist. In some ways, his secondary characters-- independent girlfriend Amanda; friend and lawyer, Jackie Swaitkowski; Joe Sullivan, the cop friend; obstructionist Officer Orlovsky and Eddie Van Halen, the mutt--are the more interesting characters. Also, in this book, the question of whether Sam would finally get what is owed him, was more suspenseful than the actual mystery.

For all that, it's not a bad book; I just felt his others were better. I did very much appreciate his homage to the late author, Philip R. Craig. The greatest evidence of this is that, two weeks after finishing this, I couldn't remember the plot where I do remember the plots of the previous books. But I'm not giving up on either Sam, or Mr. Knopf and I look forward to reading his next book.

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Knopf, Chris - 4th in series
The Permanent Press, 2009, US Hardcover - ISBN: 9781579621834
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars fun read, August 6, 2009
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I enjoyed the writing style as it evoked a sense of old detectives/private-eyes. I think it would be a great book to listen to as the writing seemed to be more conversationalist. The swearing got old and I felt that even though Sam was a tough guy--take no smack from anyone--that his language could have been cleaned up a bit and that of some of the other characters. I like how Sam interacts with everyone and how even though he uses everyone to help him solve the case that you still like him and laugh at his thoughts and views.
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