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| Title | : | Severance Package |
| Author | : | Duane Swierczynski |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 264 pages |
| Published | : | May 27th 2008 by Minotaur Books |
| Categories | : | Thriller. Fiction. Mystery. Crime. Noir. Suspense. Novels |
Duane Swierczynski
Paperback | Pages: 264 pages Rating: 3.66 | 1411 Users | 221 Reviews
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Jamie DeBroux's boss has called a special meeting for all "key personnel" at 9:00 a.m. on a hot Saturday in August.When Jamie arrives, the conference room is stocked with cookies and champagne. His boss smiles and tells his employees, "We're a cover for a branch of the intelligence community. And we're being shut down." Jamie's boss then tells everyone to drink some champagne, and in a few seconds they'll fall asleep---for good. If they refuse, they'll be shot in the head.
Escape is not an option. Jamie's boss has shut down the elevators and rigged the fire towers with chemical bombs. Panic sets in, chaos erupts, and no one is sure whom to trust. Jamie quickly realizes that there's only one way he's ever going to see his family again: the hard way.
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| Original Title: | Severance Package |
| ISBN: | 0312343809 (ISBN13: 9780312343804) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Barry Award Nominee for Best Paperback Original (2009) |
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Ratings: 3.66 From 1411 Users | 221 ReviewsNotice Based On Books Severance Package
All I can say is Duane Swierczynski does it for me. I enjoy his novels. Severance Package, like the rest of his books, would make for an excellent movie. A movie that would fit perfectly with the styles of Quentin Tarantino.Severance Package is a wickedly adrenalized, pulsating, page-turning piece of pulp. Like seriously, wtf? Everything is exquisitely exaggerated and unleashed in comic technicolor. I would love to have seen this as a graphic novel actually (or a slick Tarantino cinematic production), since so many of its best characteristics are both visceral and visual. This novel IS NOT grounded in realism, flirting much more with parody and noir. And what can I say? I loved it! It's bloody and ridiculous.
Getting called in to work on a saturday? That is the worst. Getting called in to work on a Saturday and being told that you're a front for a secret government counter-terrorism unit? That's.. interesting. Getting called in to work on a Saturday and being told that your office is being shut down and you're all going to be killed? Well, is it too late to take a sick day?Swierczynski gives us the third installment in a sort of Philly-based unofficial crime trilogy. I say unofficial because it
Murphy, Knox and Associates is another financial firm in downtown Philadelphia. It's a small company with a big secret - it is a front for an intelligence agency. They secretly work to defund terror. But, there's more than that even. And when the really deep stuff goes off the rails, it's determined that the staff - civilian dupes or entrenched agents - must be liquidated. The guy at the top has a plan to get the job done but... things go wrong. Terribly wrong. Especially for Jamie who is just a
Not much of a story here and what little there is was exremely cliché...
Duane Swierczynski is an author that dispenses with characterization and relies almost exclusively on dialogue and swift action to carry the reader through the book. In essence, and if this book is any indication, he's a pulp writer. And if you're into this style of writing than you've come to the right place.John Locke fans (and yes, I'm one of them) would say that the dialogue is not as good as what the Donavan Creed novels deliver. Locke too dispenses with characterization and description and
Nothing good ever comes to people forced into work on a Saturday. This is especially true when you find out your office has been a front for a secret counterterrorism agency thats been shut down and, well, everyone knows just a little too much. The solution? Drink the spiked champagne and go to sleep peacefully (and permanently) -- or get your brains blown out. Lucky for the reader, some choose to fight back and it's the bloody mess you hoped it would be. This book reads like a graphic novel or
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