Drowned Hopes
1990 • 453 pages

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Bumbling comic criminal John Dortmunder is in hot water as he tries to keep a nasty old man from blowing up a dam to unearth $750,000. Dortmunder must devise a safer scheme to get the loot... before the old coot's trigger finger gets too itchy.


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14 primary books15 released books

#7 in Dortmunder

Dortmunder is a 15-book series with 14 released primary works first released in 1970 with contributions by Donald E. Westlake.

#1
The Hot Rock
#2
Bank Shot
#3
Jimmy the Kid
#4
Nobody's Perfect
#5
Why Me
#6
Good Behaviour
#7
Drowned Hopes
#8
Don't Ask
#9
What's The Worst That Could Happen?
#10
Bad News
#11
The Road to Ruin
#11.5
Thieves' Dozen

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Long and boring and has lots of bad computer stuff that's aged worse than yer grandma who spent a lifetime smoking two packs a day and exclusively drinking whiskey.

January 3, 2020