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The plan / Stephen J. Cannell.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780688140465 (acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 0688140467 (acid-free paper)
- Physical Description: vii, 420 p. ; 24 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : W. Morrow and Co., c1995.
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| Subject: | Presidents > United States > Election > Fiction. Organized crime > United States > Fiction. Mafia > United States > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Mystery fiction. Political thrillers. |
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- 4 of 4 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Castlegar Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 4 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Castlegar Public Library | FIC CAN (Text) | 35146001209154 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 1995 April
~ First novel and political thriller about the Mafia setting up an unknown Rhode Island governor to nab the US presidency. New Jersey crime family leaders Mickey Alo and his dad Joseph are irked by new RICO laws and want their own man in the White House, especially with four new Supreme Court appointments coming up (shades of Grisham!). They've got offshore billions in unlaundered money (more Grisham!), funds perfect for backing a presidential run, and what's more, the Mafia-owned UBC, one of the top TV networks, will throw its weight and prestige into the race. To film a documentary about candidate Haze Richards, Mickey chooses his prep-school buddy Ryan Bolt, a TV reporter downed by divorce after the drowning death of his son, but Ryan films a damning tape of Richards as a milk-livered washout. As more hindrances to Mickey's plans arise, bodies start dropping, including that of candidate Haze's divorce-bound wife. Ryan goes on the run, accompanied by ex-FBI agent Solomon Kazorowski and Mickey's gorgeous sister Lucinda, who has fallen for Ryan. Mickey, however, is bent on rubbing out Ryan and sends hit man after hit man to kill him, only to have ``Kaz'' blast them away man by man. An incriminating FBI tape from 20 years ago, of Joseph Alo's old cohort Meyer Lansky beginning to set up the presidential takeover by buying UBC, is in the hands of the wife of a late Israeli judge, so the team flies off to Israel to find the tape. But even there, things go boom, Kaz dies heroically helping the group escape, and when Lucinda, Ryan and a Reuters photographer reenter the States, they find themselves identified on CNN as fugitives while Haze Richards heads toward a landslide win. Early touches of Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell awaken hopes for a superior thriller--but TV scriptwriter Cannell (The Rockford Files, The Commish, etc.) trots out the same old song and dance. Copyright 1999 Kirkus Reviews - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 1995 February
TV producer/writer Cannell has penned a thriller about the Mafia's plan to put one of their own in the White House. Copyright 1995 Cahners Business Information. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 1995 May #2
Veteran TV producer Cannell (The Rockford Files, The A-Team, The Commish, etc.) brings comic-book plotting and cellophane characterization to his first thriller, about the 1996 presidential election. The ``plan'' dates from the 1970s, when some farsighted mobsters decide gradually to buy controlling stakes in TV networks to give their favorite pols ``face time'' and eventually put their own man in the White House. It's a high-concept plot, worthy of a TV movie, but who'd want to play the hero? Ryan Bolt, an impossibly WASP-y and wimpy TV producer, is asked by short, fat and nasty Mickey Alo, his old prep-school pal, to film a documentary about a long-shot presidential hopeful. As Ryan susses out that Mickey is engaged in buying the presidency for the airhead governor of Rhode Island, he also falls hard for Lucinda Alo, Mickey's advanced degree-holding sister who, preposterously, doesn't know about the family business. The writing is by turns pretentious (``Dawn broke like a cheap wine cooler spreading an ugly red stain on the gray ocean''), silly (``Ryan knew where he was headed but had no inkling where he was going'') and bafflingly vulgar (``A shot of adrenaline hit Ryan's heart like cold piss''). As Ryan is drawn deeper into the mobby machinations of Mickey, and as the fate of the Republic comes to rest on his modest shoulders, Cannell hits every lurid and gory button possible in this cartoonly tale. (June) Copyright 1995 Cahners Business Information. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 1996 May #4
This first novel from TV writer/producer Cannell concerns a Mafia attempt to put a puppet leader in the White House. (July) Copyright 1996 Cahners Business Information.
