Grand Cru

by Barney Leason

Book Overview

Barney Leason's sizzling tales of intrigue and desire among the rich and beautiful have sold over three million copies and won him spots on the New York Times and Los Angeles Times bestseller lists.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812576349
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Forge
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 1.0" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

World Wine Thriller

This is surely the be-all and end-all of wine thrillers. A clown-and-demon bunch of international plotters try to take over a fine, small American vineyard. Their efforts explode with murder, mayhem, sea and highway chase scenes, and yes, there's also high and low comedy and a quality cabernet romance. Tucked in are fascinating and obscure goblets of information on wine-selling, wine-tasting and wine-adulterating. I'd sooner put aside a glass of some grand cru than "Grand Cru." If this isn't a bestseller, there's no literary justice left.

A fast-paced comic thriller

Barney Leason knows his California wine country as well as Elmore Leonard knows the underside of Florida. "Grand Cru" is as smooth as a fine California Pinot Noir, a fast-paced comic thriller that occasionally erupts into outrageous farce, a Leason specialty. Laugh-out-loud funny in places, warm-hearted, consistently readable, just the book to have handy in your carry-on bag for a long flight to the West Coast.