Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Bouncer
    The Bouncer
    The Bouncer
    Audiobook6 hours

    The Bouncer

    Written by David Gordon

    Narrated by Richard Poe

    4/5

    ()

    Switch to ebook

    About this audiobook

    In this riotous caper from Edgar Award finalist David Gordon, the CIA, FBI, and nearly every level of organized crime collide with a singularly evil domestic terrorist and a reluctant bandit known by all as "Joe the Bouncer". In David Gordon's diabolically imaginative new thriller, The Bouncer, nothing and no one is as expected-from a vial of yellow fragrance to a gangster who moonlights in women's clothes. Joe Brody is just your average Dostoevsky-reading, Harvard-expelled strip club bouncer who has a highly classified military history and whose best friend from Catholic school happens to be head mafioso Gio Caprisi. FBI agent Donna Zamora, the best shot in her class at Quantico, is a single mother stuck at a desk manning the hotline. Their storylines intersect over a tip from a cokehead that leads to a crackdown on Gio's strip joint in Queens and Joe's arrest-just one piece of a city-wide sweep aimed at flushing out anyone who might have a lead on the various terrorists whose photos are hanging on the wall under Most Wanted. Outside the jailhouse, the Fed and the bouncer lock eyes, as Gordon launches them both headlong into a nonstop plot that goes from back-road gun show intervention to high-stakes perfume heist and manages to touch everyone from the CIA to the Flushing Triads. Beneath it all lurks a sinister criminal mastermind whose manipulations could cause chaos on a massively violent scale. For readers who like a heavy dose of fun with their murder, this is crime fiction at its freshest, from a virtuoso of the "darkly comic, stylish literary thriller" (Associated Press).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateAug 7, 2018
    ISBN9781501997167
    Author

    David Gordon

    David Gordon was born in New York City. He attended Sarah Lawrence College and holds an MA in English and Comparative Literature and an MFA in Writing, both from Columbia University, and has worked in film, fashion, publishing, and pornography. His first novel, The Serialist, won the VCU/Cabell First Novel Award and was a finalist for an Edgar Award. His work has also appeared in The Paris Review, Purple, and Fence among other publications.

    More audiobooks from David Gordon

    Related to The Bouncer

    Titles in the series (5)

    View More
    View More

    Related audiobooks

    Suspense For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Four Best Audiobooks Of June To Take You Places

      Jun 23, 2020

      Hardboiled mysteries, obscure farming communities, and tales of home and family provide ample entertainment in June’s audiobook roundup.

      2 min read

    • Article

      Gottcha

      Oct 12, 2018

      Gottcha
      7 min read

    • Article

      Great Scot

      Oct 22, 2021

      Great Scot
      10 min read

    • Article

      Billy Connolly: ‘It Might Be Lovely On The Other Side’

      Oct 17, 2021

      A fostered-off schoolboy going nowhere fast, turned apprentice welder on the Clyde. A welder turned regionally popular musician. A musician turned nationally popular comic. A comic turned Hollywood actor and an actor turned New York artist, then a re

      10 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Mar 14, 2022

      Anecdotal evidence: twice I stayed in hotels that also housed people in temp accommodation. In both cases the hotels wouldn’t let them stay in during the day, for “security reasons”. Imagine having kids and having to be out from morning till evening,

      3 min read

    • Article

      Show Of Force

      Nov 6, 2022

      Show Of Force
      11 min read

    • Article

      Following A Dream

      Sep 12, 2019

      THE OCEAN VOYAGER AND ME Di Beach Published by Amazon, 2014, £13.74 (paperback) and £5.63 (Kindle) Di Beach, 20, was living in Kampala in the 1960s with her architect husband, Rod Pickering, and their baby daughter, Jojo. One Saturday they were forag

      4 min read

    • Article

      Hostess

      Dec 5, 2023

      I met Jill in 1982. We were working the Sydney-to-LA route, and she looked exactly the way an air hostess was supposed to: like Marilyn Monroe on stilts, playing the part of a firm, friendly nurse with a naughty inner life. None of the passengers wou

      20 min read

    • Article

      ‘I Won’t Let The Bastards Grind Me Down’: John Lydon On Grief, Feuds And Being An Unlikely Optimist

      Jul 29, 2023

      There’s a term for people that live in Malibu – they’re called Malubians,” claims a cackling John Lydon. “It sounds like something that has to be cut off at an early age.” The artist formerly known, in his Sex Pistols days, as Johnny Rotten is speaki

      7 min read

    • Article

      Big Die-up

      Jul 23, 2019

      Big Die-up
      3 min read

    • Article

      ‘I’m Lily Savage, The Blonde Bombsite’ – The Genius Of Paul O’Grady, By Suzy Eddie Izzard, Russell T Davies And More

      Mar 29, 2023

      In the mid-90s, I was a writer-for-hire at Granada TV, bashing out soaps, sitcoms, quizzes, anything. One day, they said: “Paul O’Grady, d’you know him? He’s Lily Savage. We want you to meet him. He wants to do a sitcom as Lily. And he needs a writer

      7 min read

    • Article

      Fitting In

      Oct 1, 2021

      Fitting In
      6 min read

    • Article

      Welcome To Planet Exotic

      Apr 24, 2020

      Welcome To Planet Exotic
      4 min read

    • Article

      Dawn Neesom Mind Of My Own

      Oct 4, 2022

      All summer we’ve had bad cases of FOMO but now it’s time for JOMO. No, not suddenly talking fluent gobbledygook – the latest hip and happening acronym stands for Joy Of Missing Out (as opposed to Fear.) Because now the long, cold dark autumn nights

      3 min read

    • Article

      Queen Of The Bonkbuster

      Dec 8, 2023

      Queen Of The Bonkbuster
      10 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Bouncer

    4/5

    24 ratings2 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 4/5
      Right from the first chapter, I liked Joe, and I liked this book! He reminds me a bit of Richard Stark's "Parker" and the writing itself felt a little like Elmore Leonard. This was just a lot of fun! Joe is a bouncer at a strip joint, but so much more! Like Jack Reacher more! He goes on a heist, goes against the FBI, CIA, and some terrorists, and gets his sheriff 'badge' to boot! The only negative in this book, for me, is when Joe chases Adrian. It is so lame and slap-sticky. More like the Marx Brothers than any of the examples I gave above. If that scene were written like the rest of this book, I'd give it five stars for sure! As is, I still really enjoyed the read, and am excited to start the next one - which I just checked out of the library! Go, go, go, Joe!
    • 3/5
      Thank you to Grove Atlantic and NetGalley for an e-ARC of The Bouncer by David Gordon in exchange for an honest review. This book captured my attention in the first chapters. Joe Brody, a bouncer in a strip club owned by criminal elements, is a sympathetic sort of man who gives most people a break. His gentle nature is what endears him to the reader. What did not read well was the over-abundance of characters and plot lines: Joe's attraction to FBI agent Donna Zamora, his lifelong friendship with crime boss Gio Caprisi, the CIA, the Triads, gun running, a perfume heist, a confidential informant etc. etc. I read until the last fifty pages before I gave up, mainly because I found myself not caring what happened to our hero. A simpler plot might have been an asset for this novel. Not a bad read, but not a great one.