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Only Way Out

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Only Way Out

By: Tod Goldberg
Narrated by: Johnny Heller
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About this listen

A luckless thief’s wrong turn becomes a crooked cop’s fortune in a wild ride of a thriller by a New York Times bestselling author.

Failed lawyer Robert Green has such a good plan: Crack three hundred safe-deposit boxes and sail off to South America with his brilliant, morally flexible sister, Penny. If it weren’t for the damned freezing rain.

In the dying resort town of Granite Shores, cop Jack Biddle is self-appointed king—mostly of bad decisions. Between his family’s crumbling legacy, a wife who just joined the city council, and life-threatening gambling debts, Jack’s looking for a way out. Then he spots a van spinning off a mountain road into the valley below. In the wreckage, Jack finds a very dead Robert, millions in heisted loot…and opportunity.

All Jack has to do is clean up the mess, disappear Robert’s body, make off with the fortune, and not get caught. One hitch is Penny. Another is Mitch Diamond, a wild card ex-con who knows more about the missing fortune than he lets on. Jack, Penny, and Mitch each have an endgame. But there’s only one way out, and they’re crashing headlong toward it.

©2025 by Tod Goldberg. (P)2025 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Crime Thrillers Dark Humour Literature & Fiction Mystery Police Procedurals Suspense Thriller & Suspense Royalty

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Critic reviews

“[Goldberg] does an uncanny job of keeping multiple plot elements in the air, shifting among unholy alliances of mobsters and do-gooders turned bad with cutting humor…Internecine noir, done just right.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“With comic flair, shocking violence, and a capacity for surprise, this recalls the noir-tinged films of the Coen brothers.”—Publishers Weekly

“Small-town crime, big-time stakes, and the twists and turns aren’t only in the plot. If there’s an inheritor of Elmore Leonard, it’s Tod Goldberg.”—Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author
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I heard this author on a podcast and thought I'd give his book a go because I am a huge Elmore Leonard fan. Boy was I glad I did. What a fun ride. Sometimes you just want a book that provides complete escapism and this book is one of those.

Like a modern Elmore Leonard

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