If you can't be good
About this book
An old CIA connection brings trouble for a Washington, DC, barman in this thriller from "America's best storyteller" (The New York Times Book Review).   As the saying goes, you can't pick your friends. If you could, Mac McCorkle would disown Padilla. They owned a bar together in Bonn, the West German capital, and stayed partners even after Padilla's sideline as a CIA operative got the bar blown up. Padilla was thought to be dead and erased from the CIA's files—but now he's back on the agency's turf.   Mac moved to Washington, DC, after the trouble in Bonn to get married and open his bar anew. His new bride is beautiful, the bar is a success, and Padilla's reappearance threatens everything. A group of African terrorists want Padilla to assassinate the prime minister of their small sub-Saharan republic—and they've kidnapped Mac's wife to use as leverage.
Reader Profile
4.0/5 · 201 readers · 249 pages · ≈ 4 h 37 m · Moderate
How long does it take to read If you can't be good?
About ≈ 4 h 37 m — 249 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is If you can't be good?
249 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is If you can't be good?
It sits on the Spy Fiction, Fiction shelves.
Is If you can't be good in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who wrote If you can't be good?
Ross Thomas.