The Accounting
Written by William Lashner
Narrated by Eric G. Dove
4/5
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About this audiobook
Jon Willing was just a teenager when he and his pals Augie and Ben stole a fortune in drug money. Brazen with youth and stoned out of their gourds, they thought they had the perfect plan for getting away with it.
They were wrong.
Twenty-five years later, Jon’s marriage is on the rocks, his kids are virtual strangers, and the recession has taken his job and decimated his finances. Worst of all, when he finds Augie murdered in Vegas, he knows the past has risen from its grave to grab him by the throat.
The battle that ensues will send Jon skittering across a landscape wracked by the Great Recession to confront the demons of his past: the grade-school bully who has terrorized him for decades, the grandfather that betrayed him, the girl that got away. And in the middle of a fight to death, with his daughter’s life hanging in the balance, Jon Willing learns the most brutal of truths:
The piper always gets paid, and sometimes he gets paid in blood.
William Lashner
New York Times bestselling author William Lashner is the author of seven suspense novels that have been published in more than a dozen languages throughout the world. A graduate of the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop, he lives with his family outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Unfamiliar with this author. But really liked the character development and plot. A nice surprise. For me, ranks as one of the top-tier thriller writers. .
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I seem to be reading a spate of books lately whose plots revolve around a man on the run, or hiding something, or looking for something, and he has to dig himself out of a hole he's dug for himself. Not a bad thing, just that it's a well-worn device that usually works.You know things are off to a good start when the narrator flies in to Las Vegas to check on an old friend and has to remember what signature he used at the bank to open the safe deposit box where cash and the gun was stored. He finds his old friend dead on the bed and some goons out to get him. Realizing that those the three friends had ripped off decades earlier have finally caught up to them, Jon Willing knows he has to abandon his family and disappear. It's not like he wasn't prepared. But then as is typical, things go wrong, people aren't what he expected, etc. It's hardly a spoiler to reveal that things work out in the end. They always do, don't they?One thing that kept niggling at the back of my mind was the relatively small amount of money involved. Admittedly, when they stole it it would have been a lot, but after 25 years and with much of it gone, we're really not talking about much. Nevertheless, this was a real page turner as the chapters flew by, Jon facing some new hurdle his naivete had failed to anticipate. Shades of Harlan Coben