Donad E. Westlake: Watch Your Back! (2006)

From the Publisher:
John Dortmunder hasn't gotten where he is today by turning a blind eye to an easy heist. So when his friend and fence Arnie Albright discovers that Manhattan billionaire Preston Fareweather has left a treasure-filled Fifth Avenue penthouse practically unguarded, Dortmunder & Co. spring into action.

But into the life of a crook a little rain must fall... and sometimes it's a deluge. The one place that Dortmunder's crew can always count on, their shrine and hangout - the O.J. Bar & Grill - is under siege from some real criminals: the Jersey Mob. Now Dortmunder and his team must liberate Fareweather's treasure and fight off a would-be Tony Soprano at the same time. And in a duel of brains, brawn, and dumb luck on two fronts, Dortmunder had better hope somebody's got his back!

Donad E. Westlake: Watch Your Back! A Dortmunder Novel. Grand Central Publishing, ISBN: 0446617121 (March, 2006), 360 p., $7.50

Donad E. Westlake: Watch Your Back! (2005)

From the Publisher:
It's a long way from the island of Manhattan to the island resort where Preston Fareweather has his hedonistic hideout - avoiding the legal prosecutions of five embittered ex-wives and enjoying the attentions of the prettiest gold diggers who happen to come his way. A terrible human being, Preston makes the terrible mistake of getting friendly with an equally dyspeptic personality: a New York fence named Arnie Albright.

Arnie went to the island paradise to become a happier man. It worked. After a week with Preston, Arnie comes home to New York with a whole new attitude and a proposition for his associate John Dortmunder: a can't miss, million-dollar robbery - of Preston's nearly unguarded, art-filled Fifth Avenue penthouse. With Arnie taking a measly thirty percent cut, it's practically charity for the master thief.

But when Dortmunder and his clean-up crew get together to plan the heist, they quickly get distracted. The place they meet, the place they have always met and always will meet - the O.J. Bar & Grill - has fallen into the clutches of a mob crew. Suddenly a billionaire from Fifth Avenue and a would-be Tony Soprano from New Jersey have one thing in common: John Dortmunder is after them both at the same time... and disaster can't be far behind.

Donad E. Westlake: Watch Your Back! A Dortmunder Novel. Mysterious Press, ISBN: 0892968028 (April, 2005), 310 p., $32.00