Michigan Roll by Tom Kakonis
The first book in the WAVERLY series
Ex-con and professional poker player Timothy Waverly travels to Traverse City, Michigan for a break…and falls into bed with a seductress named Midnight. She’s an out-of-towner, too, there to rescue her self-destructive brother, who has stupidly ripped off a fortune in cocaine from a vicious Chicago mobster. Now she is being chased by Shadow, a hemorrhoidal hitman who gleefully specializes in torture and rape, and Gleep, his muscle-bound henchman. The odds are stacked against her, but Waverly is a gambler who knows how to play them…
Books by Tom Kakonis
Waverly’s Gambles: All 3 Novels
All three of thriller master Tom Kakonis' wildly acclaimed novels featuring Timothy Waverly, an ex-con and professional poker player as good at playing the hero as he is at playing the odds.
Treasure Coast
A failed professional gambler is pulled into a kidnapping plot in Florida that spirals dangerously out of control.
Flawless
Tom Kakonis’ psychological suspense thriller pits a flawless serial killer against a relentless PI in a clever game of cat-and-mouse. Set aside your weekend – this one is impossible to put down.
Michigan Roll
With this unforgettable thriller, master of crime fiction Tom Kakonis launched his acclaimed series featuring Timothy Waverly – an ex-con and professional poker player as good at playing the hero as he is at playing the odds.
Reviews For Michigan Roll
Kakonis can really write. In Waverly, he gives us a wonderful character in a brutal world
Fast, strong, harsh and beautiful. If this is Tom Kakonis' first novel, he sure landed running. A terrific job!
A wonderful novel – smart, light and mean
A cold-deck nightmare of high-stakes peril
A sure narrative voice, a richly shaded hero and heroine, nightmare-vivid villains, and a plot paved with switchbacks and big curves add up to classy, if brutal, crime entertainment: this one cooks
