The Twelve Lives Of Samuel Hawley - Target Club Pick

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How often do you come across a fun, well-paced family crime thriller that is superbly crafted and written with both wit and heart? Maybe once. Enjoy - root for Loo til your inner fan grows hoarse, and have fun trying to decide whether Sam Hawley is a hero, a villain, a victim, a mythic being, or ...

from colleentw

First, I received this book from Random House at its Open House in December 2016. My receipt of this book was not in exchange for a review. The story starts with Samuel Hawley living a nomadic life with his daughter, Loo. Why they are travelling and where they are going are unknown at the beginni...

from susan.h.schofield

I was so glad this book lived up to the rave reviews I had heard. It was an engrossing story of Samuel Hawley and his daughter Loo. Hawley is a career criminal who has been 12 scars from 12 bullets on his body. The story chapters alternate between how Hawley got each of those scars and the life o...

from auntmarge64

I usually start a review with a little information of the book's plot or topic, but in this case Amazon's description sums it up perfectly: "After years spent living on the run, Samuel Hawley moves with his teenage daughter, Loo, to Olympus, Massachusetts. There, in his late wife's hometown, Haw...

from froxgirl

This is a mighty and flawless novel. The twelve lives in the title are actually twelve bullet wounds suffered by Hawley, father of Loo, widower of Lily, and all around thief and liar. And yet his fortitude and integrity ("to live outside the law you must be honest" - Bob Dylan) are unlimited. The...