Marked Man audiobook

Philadelphia Attorney Victor Carl wakes up one morning in the vestibule of his apartment building, his suit disheveled, socks missing, and the name Chantal Adair inscribed on his chest. Victor can’t remember what happened the prior night and is on a quest to find out, along with who Chantal Adair is. But his efforts are waylaid by a stubborn Greek woman on her deathbed, demanding he bring her son Charlie Kalakos home in return for a favor Victor’s father owes her. Charlie is wanted by the District Attorney’s Office and the FBI for stealing a Rembrandt painting from a museum. Charlie wants to return home to tell his mother goodbye but Charlie’s partners-in-crime would prefer he stay gone. While negotiating with the authorities as well as considering a shady offer by an art dealer/mercenary named Lavender Hill, Victor hires his own investigator to find Chantal Adair. To his surprise, a young girl with the same name disappeared the night Charlie and his gang stole the Rembrandt. Could the two crimes be connected? Each outing with self-deprecating Victor Carl is a treat for readers who like a good mystery with wacky characters and a narrative voice that entertains throughout. A flawed man who thinks worse of himself than he actually is, Victor is tempted by fame and money with an internal monitoring system that allows him to step outside the bounds of law, but just barely. Victor, who seems to remain in a self-identity crisis, is joined this time by his partner, Beth Derringer, the moral gauge of their partnership. Lashner’s excellent style offers plenty of humor enmeshed within a good story and characters that just can’t be matched. This series is a hard one to top.

It's not necessary to have read any of the other books in the series to have enjoyed this book. I haven't and did enjoy the story. Flawed characters make for the best protagonist, and the main character comes with many flaws. Beyond that there is nothing special about this somewhat flawed lawyer and partial detective who wakes up with a girls named tattooed on his back and tries to find out why it got their. There not being anything special about the story is probably why it's so entertaining.

Ohh my God! So much twists and turns. All questions answered at the right time. Great plot, great development, and a really good ending. I liked it very much! Thank you Carolina Gonzalez

Another compelling Victor Carl read. Great start, where he wakes up to discover a name tattooed on his chest, with no recollection of who it is or why it's there. The reader doesn't find out till very late.Around this mystery, Carl's picked up a client who is wanted by the FBI. This man just happens to be using a stolen Rembrandt to bargain with, while someone else doesn't want the man or the painting to survive.I actually used a quote from Lashner's Victor Carl to open Part I of my own book:“Plan?”“You don't have a plan?”“Plans fall apart,” I said. “A strategy is a mode ofoperation infinitely adaptable to the truth of the situationas we find it. I prefer strategies.”“Okay. So you never told me your strategy.”“Strategy?”“You don't have a strategy either?”“That, I'm working on,” I said.

Love Lashner. His detective Victor Carl makes funny remarks. I was a Realtor for 54 years, not the kind in in the story though. There is a line in the book. “It’s always about business with a Realtor” so true. You’d probably never even remember or notice that line unless you are/were a Realtor. I laughed out loud.

Attorney Victor Carl is barely making it in the legal profession. One night of too much drinking, and Victor wakes up with a woman's name tattooed on his chest. Victor's one client has secrets, a stolen painting, and multiple individuals willing to kill for it. As Victor works to help his client and find the woman whose name he carries on his chest, the deeper in grave danger he finds himself.

Really enjoyable thriller cum private eye book. The fact that it was the first of the series that I've read and it's book no. 5 really didn't matter. The storyline has some nice neat twist and turns and it keeps you guessing as to who did what where.....

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Hmmm. 3 1/2 stars.

William Lashner ? Altijd goed !

I read a bunch of Lashner several years ago now and really enjoyed his 'better than he wants to be' protagonist, Victor Carl. As is the way sometimes with series for me, though, I at some point stopped reading without ever having actually lost interest. So I was happy in a bit of a reading lull to pull this one off my shelves.As usual, Victor is still hoping to be the bad boy who makes a killing without regard to scruples, but unfortunately for him, he still has some. That's what we know about him that he doesn't seem to know about himself, although to his regret, he's slowly realizing it. In the quest for one Chantel Adair, whose name has quite literally been tattooed on his chest without his consent, and while trying to pay back a family obligation by bringing an errant son back to his dying mother, Victor of course finds himself in more trouble than he ever anticipated. Series regulars like Victor's law partner Beth and the private eye he hires, Phil Skink, have their roles here, but for the most part Lashner breaks out into new territory with a new cast of characters. I find this a greatly enjoyable series with a comic undercurrent, and wish Lashner was better known than he appears to be, at least out my way.

Quite the roundabout mystery. Victor Carl is basically a soft hearted guy that gets talks into helping people out. Not a highly successful lawyer, he gets the job done but doesn't make a lot of money. Interesting how he started out with one project, getting a painting returned and a guy to see his dying mother and ends up solving another mystery, that of a missing girl. The two are connected and the cast of characters involved is entertaining, at times almost slapstick. Glad to finally learn how he got the tattoo on his chest in the end and who put it there. That was one of the big questions from the start. Enjoyed the book

Sixth in series. Victor wakes from a stuor to find a strange woman's name tattooed on his chest. His search for the woman intersects with a client from his father's past. The search leads from the Jersey shore to Hollywood and back, and entails the disapperance of a child. Beth Derringer leaves the practice, leaving Victor as a sole practitioner. He ends the novel with a conundrum: does he accept a large check shadily obtained?

Another winner from my man William Lashner. This guy is the best law/crime/thriller writer I know. Can't wait to read another, too bad there are only two more of his I haven't read yet. To be savored...

Another great Victor Carl novel. I love him as a character, and once again he was torn between being who he thinks he is and trying to be who he wants to be. I thought this book overall was sad though, with all the talk of being stuck in a loser's life and people's inability to change.

An interesting & enjoyable story about characters in Philadelphia with quite a sordid past. Enter Victor Carl an attorney with enough edge to investigate some of the more seamy details & it all started after meeting an attractive woman in a seedy bar.

Un ottimo legal thriller, scritto in maniera coinvolgente usando la prima persona e con una tecnica narrativa che ti catapulta all'interno della storia quasi come ne fossi il protagonista.Ben congegnata anche la trama, che non si lascia facilmente scoprire fino alla fine.