ISBN 0-586-04729-8 (UK pbk)

"Take Leo Warren, the tough ex-con whose place at the top of the criminal ladder is based on the shells of a thousand cracked safes; his partner Terry Sage, a career thief who's been stealing almost as long as he could walk; and DayDream, Terry's alluring playmate who can handle cars like a Grand Prix winner no matter how spaced out she is...

"Follow them on a thirteen-step caper of sheer cold nerve which includes 'a nice quiet lift' of two million dollars, the peeling of a safe full of cocaine and a heist with enough explosive potential to start World War III...

"Watch out for the Godspeed killer whose mission is to save humanity by administering absolution with a .32 automatic...

"Add these dynamite ingredients together and you have Final Score , an all-out action thriller of hair-raising ingenuity which will keep you pinned to the page until the final devastating chapter." [jacket blurb, UK pbk, 1978]

"Grogan documents the machinations of his hoods so precisely that Final Score could serve as a primer for thieves." --Joe Flaherty.

"Grogan writes this story with so much reality and scrupulous attention to the smallest incidental details that it makes one wonder if it's actually fiction." --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , 1995).

Recommended.