A Bullet for Arthur Vance
Paperback
Publisher: Greg Johle
Published: Jul 11 2026
Pages: 422
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The plan was simple. The target was clear. The mistake was fatal.
At 4:15 AM, the rain in Las Vegas doesn't just fall-it punishes. Inside a flickering neon diner at the edge of the desert, six desperate souls are counting their winnings and their casualties. Arthur Vance is dead in the parking lot, and the briefcase on the table isn't filled with the billionaire's extortion material they were promised. Instead, they're staring at a mountain of Cartel cash and a set of encrypted contact lists that serve as a collective death warrant.
It was supposed to be the sunset job for Silas, a weary East London cleaner who treats murder with the detached professionalism of a plumber. It was the score to save Janitor Joe's pension and the ticket out of the Vegas tunnels for Jax. But a split-second blunder in the heat of the breach changed everything. They didn't just rob a crooked businessman; they walked directly into a high-level Cartel handover, and they did it while the Whale they were originally sent to ruin watched them escape from the penthouse above.
Now, the crew is caught in a lethal pincer movement. On one side is Maxwell Sterling, a predatory billionaire who treats the hunt as a hostile corporate takeover. On the other is Mateo El Santo Vega, a Cartel lieutenant who cannot afford to lose the Chef's briefcase and keep his head.
As the sun begins to crawl over the horizon, the witty banter and pop-culture monologues mask a growing, visceral paranoia. Between Bunny's secret agendas, Mickey's obsession with regional burger architecture, and Suitcase Sam's desperate performance as a man who still has a plan, the group is fracturing from the inside.
A Bullet for Arthur Vance is a high-octane, non-linear descent into the rain-slicked guts of Las Vegas. Blending the razor-sharp, pop-culture-infused dialogue of Quentin Tarantino with the kinetic, gritty wit of Guy Ritchie, this is a crime thriller where the stakes are as high as the house edge and every character is one bad decision away from a shallow grave.
In a city built on luck, theirs just ran out.
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