The Bouncer by David Gordon

 

This is a quippy-clever thrillerish crime novel from an author who seems to make quippy-clever thrillerish crime novels almost as a matter of course. The main character is suitably troubled and complex, but mostly decent--or at least not unrepentantly evil--and the authorial voice is appropriately light and brisk. Reminds me of some of the stuff Evan Hunter/Ed McBain wrote when he was feeling witty. There is approximately no way one could reasonably take the novel as a serious proposal for a sequence of events that could plausibly happen in consensus reality, but that's not entirely a bad thing.