Larry Beinhart is best known as the author of WAG THE DOG (originally published as AMERICAN HERO) on which the film starring Robert DeNiro, Dustin Hoffman, Willie Nelson and Woody Harrelson was based. His NO ONE RIDES FOR FREE (1986) received the 1987 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. Beinhart spent two years in Oxford, England, where he was the Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellow at Wadham College. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun and the Chicago Tribune. Beinhart worked for AlJazeera English, on the TV news magazine show "Empire" as a Writer/Producer/Director. He resides in Woodstock, New York.

Books by Larry Beinhart

The Deal Goes Down

by Larry Beinhart - Fiction, Mystery, Noir, Suspense, Thriller

Ex-private eye Tony Cassella lives in the Catskill mountains, a lonely old tough guy whose body can no longer do what it once did. But a chance encounter with a rich young woman on a train changes everything. He is hired to take care of her superrich, sexual predator husband. That job leads to others, and he joins a small start-up whose mission is to save women from abusive marriages. Provided their spouses are in the top 0.01%. It's a luxury service destined to make great profits. But an old, angry associate is determined to get his cut of Tony’s earnings, murky government agents start to tail him, and when he is sent to the Austrian alps to kill a Russian oligarch and rescue his American wife, all hell breaks loose.