by Duane Swierczynski
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Meet Lennon, a mute Irish getaway driver who has fallen in with the wrong heist team on the wrong day at the wrong bank. Betrayed, his money stolen and his battered carcass left for dead, Lennon is on a one-way mission to find out who is responsible—and to get back his loot. But the robbery has sent a violent ripple effect through the streets of Philadelphia. And now a dirty cop, the Russian and Italian mobs, the mayor’s hired gun, and a keyboard player in a college rock band maneuver for position as this adrenaline-fueled novel twists and turns its way toward its explosive conclusion.
One thing’s for sure: This cast of characters wakes up in a much different world by novel’s end—if they wake up at all.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 Serious Voodoo. Will make you a speed reader, buckle up., 2008-10-26
This is a wildly raw, high-octane crime novel. The beginning is explosive and the story is somewhat disorienting early on, so you can't get too comfortable with the lead character, Lennon, the eponymous wheelman. As the layers of the story unfold, and Lennon trips through his hellish mission, the story takes the reader to some nasty, dark places, many of them embodied by Lennon himself. Wicked, wicked writing, and I thought the ending was a smash myself, creepy as hell.
I flew through this book fast enough to leave scorch marks on the pages. Just freaking LOVED it. All eyes on this writer if you like gritty, high-intensity stuff.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 Lean & mean, 2008-10-07
Just understand, a lot of characters die, badly. That's good for the reader, the suspense is ratcheted up. The pages fly. Get me to this guy's next book.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
Never has someone said so much by saying so little., 2008-10-02
This is a fun, fast moving novel by the guy who wrote "The Blonde" and "Severance Package", both of which are also pretty good. There's not a lot of time spent on development of characters, this is just a tightly plotted novel that's hard to set down and takes about 2-3 hours to read. Popcorn? Candy? Pitcher of Beer? Yes, please.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
A Crime Novel at Breakneck Speed, 2008-03-31
The Wheelman kicks butt, from the opening line to the reckless, taking-corners-on-two-wheels ending. It has an almost punk crime sensibility and Duane Swierczynski knows how to turn the dials on the reader's emotions. Read this when you have time to race all the way from cover to cover.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Brilliant hard-boiled crime fiction at a furious pace, 2007-09-12
Hard-boiled crime fiction, by which I mean crime fiction from the perspective of law-breakers, from the perspective of people for whom legality is profoundly unimportant, has become very difficult to find. Classic contributions to the genre have dropped out of print, as parlor detective fiction clogs the shelves. "The Wheelman" is not only a welcome hard-boiled novel, but a brilliant one at that. The pace is extremely fast, but, at the same time, Swierczynski manages to find each character's unique voice, and those voices are often hilarious.
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