Lemons Never Lie [Paperback]

When he’s not carrying out heists with his friend Parker, Alan Grofield runs a small theater in Indiana. But putting on shows costs money and jobs have been thin lately – which is why Grofield agreed to fly to Las Vegas to hear Andrew Myers’ plan to knock over a brewery in upstate New York. 

Unfortunately, Myers’ plan is insane – so Grofield walks out on him. But Myers isn’t a man you walk out on, and his retribution culminates in an act of unforgivable brutality.  

That’s when Grofield decides to show him what a disciple of Parker is capable of…Westlake’s style is straightforward and terse—the snub-nosed sentences one expects for the hardboiled genre.
—Las Vegas Review of Books


PRAISE FOR DONALD E. WESTLAKE


One of the great writers of the 20th Century.
—Newsweek


The novel’s deeper meditations will keep you thinking long after you’ve closed the book.
—USA Today


Elegant, melancholy… a significant final work from a master.
—Publishers Weekly, starred review


One of his most interesting books… absolutely a must-read.
—Booklist, starred review


Terse and bleak and low-key emotional… indelible.
—Entertainment Weekly


An unsparing look at a man adrift, it's a fitting final dispatch from a master.
—Time


A tour-de-force that shows a master at the top of his game.
—Edward Champion, Philadelphia Inquirer


Relentlessly involving.
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