The Crimes of Jordan Wise
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| Author(s) | Bill Pronzini |
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| Subtitle | A Novel |
| Publisher | Walker & Company |
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| Jordan Wise is a mild-mannered accountant with a large San Francisco engineering firm in the late 1970s. His dull, empty life is transformed when he meets and falls in love with Annalise Bonner, an ambitious young woman who craves excitement, a life on the edge. With Annalise as the catalyst, Wise concocts and executes a meticulous plan to steal more than half a million dollars from his firm. Their escape to the Virgin Islands is beset by unexpected pitfalls—and Wise is forced to carry out two more ingenious schemes as a result. All three of his crimes are perfect—or are they? | |
Jordan Wise is a mild-mannered accountant with a large San Francisco engineering firm in the late 1970s. By his own admission, the first thirty-four years of his life were dull, empty. But that all changes when he meets and falls in love with Annalise Bonner, an ambitious young woman who craves excitement, a life on the edge.
With her as the catalyst, Wise concocts and executes a meticulous plan to steal more than half a million dollars from his firm. They escape to the Virgin Islands, but their plans to live a life of quiet luxury are beset by unexpected pitfalls—and Wise is forced to carry out two more ingenious schemes as a result. All three of his crimes are perfect—or are they?
The Crimes Of Jordan Wise is a classic tale of love, greed, betrayal, and violence told with Bill Pronzini’s characteristic twists and turns and his special brand of suspense. It is also a powerful psychological examination of a man, a woman, and the wages of sin.
