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Lights Out!
Lights Out!
Lights Out!
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Lights Out!

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“Fans of Donald Westlake and Elmore Leonard will enjoy this bright caper novel” by the USA Today–bestselling author of the Murder She Wrote series (Publishers Weekly).
 
Engineer Carlton Smythe feels bored in his marriage—and once he meets a mysterious woman in a bar during a trip to Buenos Aires, he becomes desperate to find the funds he needs to run off with her and start a whole new life far from his native Canada. That’s when he comes up with an audacious moneymaking scheme that draws on his professional expertise. What would certain parties pay for advance knowledge of a massive US power outage?
 
But to pull it off, he will need to do business with some wholly undesirable criminal elements—and that’s when things start to spin wildly out of control . . .
 
“A wonderful read.” —Michael Palmer, New York Times–bestselling author
 
 
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJun 1, 2014
ISBN9781780105147
Lights Out!
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Donald Bain

Donald Bain (1935-2017), the author of more than 115 books, including more than forty of the bestselling Murder, She Wrote novels, was a longtime friend of Margaret Truman. He worked closely with her on her novels, and more than anyone understood the spirit and substance of her books.

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    Carlton Smythe, once an electrical engineer with Power-Can, feels trapped and bored with his marriage. While on a business trip, he meets a young woman named Gina and, besotted with her, concocts a wild scheme involving a blackout and crime lords that will allow him to leave his marriage behind and spend his days with the sultry girl of his dreams.Readers will find the story of Carlton’s caper straightforward and, despite having a good idea of just where this wild plan will end up, will enjoy the humor and the antics surrounding its execution. It’s a thoroughly good read.Recommended.

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