Unknown Remains
A Novel
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3.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Jack McCann is a high–stakes Wall Street trader who sneaks into his office early one morning to try and clear out his things and get out of dodge; he knows he's in trouble, deep legal trouble, a fact highlighted by the urgent phone calls from his boss. Outside his office window, Jack hears a booming sound, and then the worst thing imaginable. He works in the World Trade Center, and it is September 11, 2001.
His wife in Connecticut, Diane, is visited the next day by a grief counselor, and then the mob, where she learns her husband owes them $750,000. Their personal bank accounts have been emptied. She's totally and utterly broke. Lost in grief and now shock, Diane soon learns her husband was not the loving spouse he appeared to be. But neither is she, owing to that Beretta she keeps tucked into her handbag.
The perfect summer read, Unknown Remains boasts an exciting crime story, inventive plot twists, and a cast of rogues, who just might be using a national tragedy to cover up their own deep transgressions and greed.
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This assured crime novel from Leonard (Eyes Closed Tight) opens on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, in New York City. Jack McCann is in his office on the 89th floor of the north tower of the World Trade Center when the first plane hits. He's presumed dead, but debt collectors Duane Cobb and Ruben Diaz, who were planning to call on Jack that day, hope this isn't so. Later in the month, Cobb and Diaz drive to Connecticut to visit Jack's wife, Diane, who has discovered that Jack cleaned out their bank accounts and embezzled $750,000 at work shortly before 9/11; he also had a girlfriend in Manhattan. Cobb and Diaz start harassing Diane to either find Jack or collect his debt from his life insurance. She brushes them off and goes to see the girlfriend. Frequent flashbacks are a bit confusing, but Leonard does a good job guiding the reader down one rabbit hole after another as the plot twists and turns.
