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The Crimes of Jordan Wise

Jordan Wise is a mild-mannered accountant with a large San Francisco

engineering firm in the late 1970s. By his own admission, the first

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thirty-four years of his life were dull, empty. But that all changes

when he meets and falls in love with Annalise Bonner, an ambitious

young woman who craves excitement, a life on the edge.

With her as the catalyst, Wise concocts and executes a meticulous

plan to steal more than half a million dollars from his firm. They

escape to the Virgin Islands, but their plans to live a life of quiet

luxury are beset by unexpected pitfalls — and Wise is forced to

carry out two more ingenious schemes as a result. All three of his

crimes are perfect — or are they?

THE CRIMES OF JORDAN WISE is a classic tale of love, greed, betrayal,

and violence told with Bill Pronzini's characteristic twists and

turns and his special brand of suspense. It is also a powerful

psychological examination of a man, a woman, and the wages of sin.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 256 pages

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