the payback game reviews
" Nathan Gottlieb's The Payback Game is not only a terrific mystery story, but it's so loaded with twists and turns and compelling characters that it's nearly impossible to put the book down. Frank Boff, the rogue private eye and former legendary DEA agent continues to defy all genre expectations. He's a delightful and iconic investigator with a wicked sense of humor and a morally-challenged idea of what constitutes justice in a system overrun with corruption. I defy you to find a more original and appealing private eye."
(Harvey Araton, New York Times)
"A New York City cop is killed by an assassin who disguises the murder as a heart attack. Two weeks later, a star investigative columnist for the NY Daily News, who was digging into the faked heart attack, is brutally murdered himself. Months later, the two cases have gone cold. Nobody can crack them. Well, nobody except Frank Boff. In this fourth installment of Nathan Gottlieb's acclaimed mystery series, the former DEA agent turned high-profile private investigator is hired to hunt down yet another killer. This time, Boff and his sidekick, boxer Danny Cullen, find themselves neck-deep in danger as they go up against Hells Angels bikers, bent cops, and a secret and sinister operation that is about to explode onto the New York scene. If The Payback Game doesn't keep you turning pages at warp speed, you don't have a pulse."
(Kevin Kernan, NY Post)
(Harvey Araton, New York Times)
"A New York City cop is killed by an assassin who disguises the murder as a heart attack. Two weeks later, a star investigative columnist for the NY Daily News, who was digging into the faked heart attack, is brutally murdered himself. Months later, the two cases have gone cold. Nobody can crack them. Well, nobody except Frank Boff. In this fourth installment of Nathan Gottlieb's acclaimed mystery series, the former DEA agent turned high-profile private investigator is hired to hunt down yet another killer. This time, Boff and his sidekick, boxer Danny Cullen, find themselves neck-deep in danger as they go up against Hells Angels bikers, bent cops, and a secret and sinister operation that is about to explode onto the New York scene. If The Payback Game doesn't keep you turning pages at warp speed, you don't have a pulse."
(Kevin Kernan, NY Post)
