Final Notice

by Joe Gores

Book Overview

"First-class private eye fiction." -- Chicago Tribune An aging beauty's red Cadillac is repossessed by the bank but quickly returned, thanks to a comic book on its front seat stuffed with $500 in new... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394487060
• ISBN13: 9780394487069
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Random House Trade
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Repossessing the Mob

This is the second book in the very enjoyable and entertaining DKA Files. DKA stands for Dan Kearny Associates and is a detective agency that specialises in car repossessions and tracking down skip-traces. Final Notice is full of clever cons and scams designed to gather the information required to track down their delinquent quarry.When DKA agent Larry Ballard repossesses a Cadillac, he unwittingly also takes a comic book containing a number of $100 bills stuffed between the pages. In doing so he places the company in the middle of a mob pay-off. The bank that employed DKA to perform the repossession quickly order the caddy be returned to the former owner (an almost unheard of request) which DKA obediently do. It would have all ended there, but then a member of staff is savagely beaten by a known mob enforcer right outside the agency office. From this point on it becomes personal and Dan Kearny and his people become determined to find out what's going on and, perhaps get some revenge.This book is a nice mix of interesting detective work couple with a likable group of individually unique characters making it a fresh detective story. There are plenty of action sequences to keep the entertainment level high as well as some light-hearted interaction between the DKA agents. As far as private investigator series go, I've found this to be one of the freshest and most enjoyable ones written in recent times.

Bad Guys Are Easy To Find

In FINAL NOTICE the reader knows who the bad guys are early on in the book. The big surprise is how Dan Kearny chooses to handle the situation. FINAL NOTICE is one of the better entries in the popular DKA series.

Excellent

This book was really hard to put. It's a shame that is no longer available. The writing is fast, excellent and intelligent. I really loved this book.