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Eleven on Top (A Stephanie Plum Novel) | ||
| Author: | Janet Evanovich | ||
| ISBN: | 0312985347 | ||
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Stephanie Plum is thinking her career as a fugitive apprehension agent has run its course. She’s been shot at, spat at, cussed at, fire-bombed, mooned, and attacked by dogs. Stephanie thinks it’s time for a change. So she quits. She wants something safe and normal. But the kind of trouble she had at the bail bonds office can’t compare to the kind of trouble she finds herself facing now… Stephanie is stalked by a maniac returned from the grave for the sole purpose of putting her into a burial plot of her own. He’s killed before, and he’ll kill again if given the chance. Caught between staying far away from the bounty hunter business and staying alive, Stephanie reexamines her life and the possibility that being a bounty hunter is the solution rather than the problem. After disturbingly brief careers at the button factory, Kan Klean Dry Cleaners, and Cluck-in-a-Bucket, Stephanie takes an office position in security, working for Ranger, the sexiest, baddest bounty hunter and businessman on two continents. Tempers and temperatures rise as competition ratchets up between the two men in her life—her on-again, off-again boyfriend, tough Trenton cop Joe Morelli, and her boss, Ranger. Can Stephanie Plum take the heat? Can you? Eleven on Top (A Stephanie Plum Novel) FROM THE PUBLISHER America's favorite bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum, is back in her eleventh adventure. Trouble seems to find Stephanie no matter where she goes, and once again she's struggling with her tangled love life, her chaotic family, and her God-given gift for destroying every car she drives. This time, Stephanie Plum has decided to quit her job as a bounty hunter. She wants something safe. She wants something normal. She's tired of creeps, weirdos, and stalkers. But just when she thinks she's out, they pull her back in! This latest novel is packed full of Janet Evanovich's trademark wit, adventure, and sly comedy. So fasten your seatbelt and hang on—Stephanie's back in town! FROM THE CRITICS Publishers Weekly New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum (last seen in 2004's Ten Big Ones) stumbles out of the gate due to some forced humor, but she eventually hits her usual entertaining stride in a tale that includes exploding cars, volatile wedding preparations and heated romantic entanglements. Stephanie decides to quit her job and seek less dangerous work after receiving a couple of disquieting notes. But the notes turn to threats and attacks, and she learns that her ineptitude is not confined to bounty hunting but transfers well to a succession of low-paying, sometimes humiliating jobs. After taking on Stephanie's previous duties, sidekick Lula naturally calls on Stephanie to lend a hand so that her bounty hunting travails continue unabated. Foul-mouthed Lula proves to have some pretty brutal ideas about how to bring 'em back. Bestseller Evanovich may be performing the same tricks over and over at this point in the series (the bumbling sleuth act, sexual-tension jokes, etc.), but most readers will find this a pleasing romp. Agent, Robert Gottlieb. 1.25-million printing; author tour. (On sale June 21) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information. Kirkus Reviews Trenton's best-known bounty hunter has up and left her cousin Vinnie's employ. No, really. There's no real reason why Stephanie Plum (To the Nines, 2003, etc.) has turned in the phony badge she bought off the Web. She's just had enough chasing after the kind of lowlifes who run out on bail bonds and spit in her face when they're caught. And the funny thing is, quitting doesn't change her life a bit. Sure, now she's getting ogled by her boss at the button factory or the customers at Kan Klean cleaners or Cluck-in-a-Bucket, the employment opportunities she savors before taking a filing job for her old lust object, bounty hunter Ranger Manoso. But she still rides along when her old file clerk Lula, who's been promoted to Stephanie's former job, goes after fugitives she can't handle, which is pretty much all of them, and she still submits to the frequent and thorough embraces of cop Joe Morelli when she's not thinking of Ranger, and sometimes even when she is. The jokes, comic bits and funny scenes come so fast and furious that only old hands will notice there's even less mystery than usual: something about four old men whose disappearance may be tied to a truck heist 36 years ago. No plot to get in the way of the story-just the way it should be for Stephanie. First printing of 1,250,000
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