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Tom Jimson, the burglar, has $700,000 stashed away in a valley town that has been converted into a reservoir by the state of New York. Now, the money lies fifty feet below water, and the only way in which Jim wants to retrieve it is to blow up the dam. With the fate of nine hundred people at stake, it falls on John Dortmunder to formulate an alternate plan for retrieving the loot. And, as each attempt by Dortmunder fails, Tom's dynamite finger gets itchier...and itchier.
First publish date: 1990
Genre: Crime Fiction/Heist Fiction
Authors: Donald E. Westlake
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