Lou Berney’s 2024 release, Double Barrel Bluff, brings the welcome return of his popular Shake Bouchon series in which the former wheelman for the Armenian mob, now settled into a quiet, domestic life in middle America, is confronted with an unwelcome face from the past. And it’s not just any face, but the face of the former right hand to the boss of LA’s Armenian mob standing in Shake’s back yard in the middle of a sunny summer afternoon. An ugly face and the face of the meanest, dumbest, most brutal man Shake had ever met. The brute who’d promised Shake he’d make him beg for death the next time they crossed paths and who could not possibly be here demanding Shake to help him find Lexy Ilandryan, his beautiful, dangerous and missing boss—except that he is. Hit the link below for the full review at ITW’s The Big Thrill Recommends.