Put a Lid on It - Donald E. Westlake
Category: Humor
Narrator: William Dufris
Tags: Humor, Thriller, Adults
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Release date: May 11, 2006 Duration: 06:55:15, Meet Meehan, a character who keeps the lid from blowing off Washington politics., Meehan, a career thief staring at life without parole, is awaiting sentencing at the Manhattan Correctional Center when someone masquerading as his lawyer calls him to a meeting. The man, it turns out, represents the presidential reelection campaign committee now finding itself in need of a little professional help. So they outsource Meehan in return for a walk from all pending criminal charges. All he has to do is steal a compromising videotape before the other side springs an October Surprise on the president. A shrewd burglar, Meehan bitesand shows just how easy Watergate would have been had they left it to the professionals., This is the kind of hysterical plot that readers have come to expect from Westlake: Its implausible, with lots of twists and turns, yet rigorously attentive to detail; every character is bent; and the
