Mink Eyes

Dan Flanigan

Jun 2022 · Peter O'Keefe Book 1 · Arjuna Books · Narrated by Kaleo Griffith

About this audiobook

The year is 1986—the tarnished heart of the "Greed is Good" decade.

Private detective Peter O’Keefe, a physically scarred and emotionally battered Vietnam vet, is hired by childhood friend and attorney Mike Harrigan to investigate what appears to be a petty mink farm Ponzi scheme in the Ozarks. But quickly O’Keefe finds himself snared in a vicious web of money laundering, cocaine smuggling, and murder—all at the behest of a mysterious mobster only referred to as Mr. Canada. Also caught up in Mr. Canada’s illicit network is the exquisite Tag Parker, who seems to dance between roles as the woman of O’Keefe’s dreams—and his nightmares.

From start to finish Mink Eyes delivers classic noir crime fiction at its finest. In a category filled with formulaic and predictable characters and plot lines, reviewers are calling Mink Eyes absolutely “unique and unexpected.”

Ratings and reviews

Riveting, complex, mystery. A private detective sent on a job by his old friend and some investors of a Mink farm to figure out where the money’s going. What they believe to be a Ponzi scheme turns out to be much more. Money laundering, drugs, murder, and possibly love? This book was well written and has a developed plot. Thank you Hidden Gem’s for this copy which I reviewed honestly and voluntarily.

About the author

Dan Flanigan is a novelist, poet, and playwright, as well as a practicing lawyer. His novel, Mink Eyes, is set in 1986 and explores the "greed is good" dynamic and the cultural tensions and gender complexities of that era. It is a modern hero's quest in mystery-detective form. In addition to developing a screenplay version of Mink Eyes, he has published a book of verse and prose poetry, Tenebrae: A Memoir Of Love And Death, and Dewdrops, a collection of his shorter fiction. He has also written the full-length plays--Secrets (based on the life of Eleanor Marx) and Moondog's Progress (based on the life of Alan Freed).