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A HARD CASE CRIME CLASSIC: A quirky caper novel from the 3-time Edgar Award winner and mystery Grand Master, Donald E. Westlake!
What will a group of monks do when their New York City monastery is threatened with demolition to make room for a new high-rise?
…Anything they have to. “Thou Shalt Not Steal” is only the first of the Commandments to be broken as the saintly face off against the unscrupulous over that most sacred of relics, a Park Avenue address.
Returning to bookstores for the first time in three decades, Brothers Keepers offers not only a master class in comedy from one of the most beloved mystery writers of all time but also a surprisingly heartfelt meditation on loss, temptation, and how we treat our fellow man.
What will a group of monks do when their New York City monastery is threatened with demolition to make room for a new high-rise?
…Anything they have to. “Thou Shalt Not Steal” is only the first of the Commandments to be broken as the saintly face off against the unscrupulous over that most sacred of relics, a Park Avenue address.
Returning to bookstores for the first time in three decades, Brothers Keepers offers not only a master class in comedy from one of the most beloved mystery writers of all time but also a surprisingly heartfelt meditation on loss, temptation, and how we treat our fellow man.
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““Bless me, Father, for I think I’ve fallen in love.”
This wasn’t my favorite of Westlake’s stories I’ve read, but was still an enjoyable read. The story dragged a bit in the middle but the ending was really good.
Brother Benedict and his crew of 15 monks live in a 200-year-old ‘Spanish-Moorish-Colonial-Greek-Hebraic’ monastery on Park Avenue in NYC. These monks are devoted to ‘contemplation on good works and meditation on the meaning of Earthly travel’ They only believe in travel when it is an absolute necessity, and predictably this story required Brother Benedict to travel a lot!
Unknowingly, their lease has expired and the owners of the property have been plotting to destroy the monastery in favor of a brand-new office building on Park Ave.
Brother Benedict is the only one who can save the monks and their monastery. But of course, Brother Benedict falls in love. Will he choose the girl or crew of anti-travel monks?”
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“This was one of the first books that I've checked out from the library in at least 20 years and I did so purely on the basis of the cover. Although they say not to judge a book by its cover, clearly by the effort put into book covers, many of us readers do. This cover is amazing in such a ludicrous way. The book itself has its moments of being funny and fun to read. Unfortunately, a story about a monk trying to save his monastery from real estate developers does not lend itself to action and excitement. Westlake's writing is good enough to make much of it interesting, but the subject matter wasn't pulling its own weight and the book suffered for it.”
About Donald E. Westlake
Donald E. Westlake is widely regarded as one of the great crime writers of the 20th Century. He won three Edgar Awards and was named a Grandmaster by the Mystery Writers of America. Many of his books have been made into movies; Westlake also wrote the screenplay for "The Grifters," for which he received an Academy Award nomination.
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