description: Thus it is that hapless Joey DePino, saddled with an incurable gambler's optimism—but even worse gambler's luck—finds himself threatened with the deadly wrath of irate and unpaid bookies. What to do? Drift into an inept plan to kidnap Jessica Sussman, that's what. Joey's wife Maureen and Jessica's mother Leslie were childhood friends, and Joey has endured enough anemic evenings at the Sussman's Upper East Side apartment in New York to feel entitled to a little ransom retribution. Too bad for him that David Sussman, Jessica's father, is currently trying to end an affair with a psychopathic coworker. Hell hath no fury, as everybody knows, and the result is a tangled mess of motive, mistaken identity, and murder. The lives of the Sussmans and the DePinos—so different on their (respectively) gilt-edged and tattered surfaces—form parallel strands intertwining and accelerating toward a dark nadir.
language: German
title: Die Letzte Wette
titlecomplete: Die Letzte Wette
genres: Crime, Mystery
ratings_count: 132
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Barry Award
publisher: Diogenes Verlag