'Metzger's Dog' by Thomas Perry is a humorous and engaging novel filled with nutty characters, capers, and sharp comical observations on bureaucracy. The story follows Leroy Chinese Gordon, a minor criminal with a unique gang of friends, as they embark on a wild adventure involving a stolen box of valuable papers, a plan to blackmail the CIA, and a series of comedic mishaps. The writing style is described as stunningly deft, subtle, and filled with tongue-in-cheek humor that keeps readers entertained and engaged throughout the book.
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Content warnings include violence related to criminal activities and drugs, but nothing excessively graphic.
From The Publisher:
The much-loved comic thriller by the author of the Edgar Award-winning The Butcher's Boy is now, by popular demand, back in print, featuring a new Introduction by bestselling author Carl Hiaasen.
When Leroy "Chinese" Gordon breaks into a professor's lab at the University of Los Angeles, he's after some pharmaceutical cocaine, worth plenty of money. Instead, he finds the papers the professor has compiled for the CIA, which include a blueprint for throwing a large city into chaos. But how is the CIA to be persuaded to pay a suitable ransom, unless of course someone actually uses the plan to throw a large city into chaos-Los Angeles, for instance? Assigned to cope with the crisis and restore the peace, veteran agent Ben Porterfield steps onto the scene to remind us that the CIA's middle name is, after all, Intelligence. Enlivening the mix are Gordon's beautiful girlfriend, Margaret, his temperamental cat, Dr. Henry Metzger, and Metzger's friend, an enormous half-wild dog with huge teeth.
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