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This novel's name, ( and/or author's ) please, if possible...

Two brothers living in same city. One (the elder ) is living a bit above his standards and careless about his health, hence  famously obese in the circle of his familiarity. The younger brother - athletic, hardworking businessman, who is ambitious but law-abiding ( especially due to his serious romantic relationship with a TV journalist - dreams of a peaceful future as an ideal father  and husband ), a hardworking handicrafts importer (or perhaps exporter) knows only when his dear elderly brother is nabbed alongwith big-money and cocaine ( or may be it was heroine ), his (elder's) buyer in another part country gets caught along with ( to make the case watertight the fat brother's hotel room is equipped with cameras and bugs that prove hisself being the seller ). The smuggler-brother works under finance of the mob's most ruthless enforcer who is famous for his atrocities for the recovery of the loan provided - the wads of cash, though clearly recorded by the law-agency's cameras are lost because the smuggler-brother, on sensing the arrival of the law with thundering knocks and threats to break the hotel-room door plus loud cop-shouts of their being holding both search and arrest warrants, wisely gets the rid of brief-case holding the unlawful money while pretending to flee the scene by breaking the fourth-floor hotel room window (actually to throw the brief-case to his semi-prostitute girlfriend whom he made to stand in the service-lane, knowing that something may always go berserk during such deals ). But the girl who is a bar-hostess for shows, with just one glimpse of so much cash in the broken brief-case due to direct ground-hit from it's high fall, immediately vacates her tiny residential premises provided by the employing-hotel, and disappears forever ( alongwith the money, of course ).

Now the big brother is not only in a non-bailable cell looking at least at ten years but  also owes big money to the mob's most ruthless enforcer (as the character played by Bradd Pitt in Ocean's Eleven (or some later sequel ) says " the interest, that's killing, man "). The big brother keeps his lips tightly sealed, also extra-pays his lawyer to trace the girl in possession of the money, but no avail. The mob knows better than anyone that it's no use to trace the bitch for money, waits a day or two before beginning their pressure tactics - the brother gets roughed up in jail's common shower room, his ear is severed, while attackers carve an arrow on his lower abdomen pointing to his dick - to give a hint of  their future plans, his mom living in a separate flat is shocked to find her beloved multicolored, speaking parrot beheaded on the dinning table with warnings on the flat walls in the poor bird's blood. Even the younger brother finds his whole wardrobe gone astray with acid spray ( even his gf, living in another country finds a note saying  " it can rain acid anywhere ", along with a behead chicken on her table ).      It takes the elder brother many of his brief prison interviews to pursue the younger brother that the only way to stay alive is to payback the mob's money, which can only happen if the younger decides to undertake his brother's dirty business - turning a respectable handicrafts businessman into a narcotics smuggler. Then a long struggle of the new upstart drug-dealer to pursue his brother's buyers in another country to buy from him. But far more innovative and persuasive than his older sibling he even somehow makes the mob-enforcer himself  to refer him to biggest star - the drug manufacturer living deep in forests of Panama ( or maybe it was Laos ), a man holding enough water to make the poor country's government to protect him.       But the new kid gets nabbed soon by DEA, who plan to use him as a bait ( hence his arrest remains a state secret ). DEA's top priority is to get the manufacturer from the protective country he's currently in. Their plan involves making the bait buy a big bulk - hundreds of kgs ! Knowing such high financing will require face-to-face meeting between the top mobster ( the actual behind the scenes boss of the enforcer who first financed the elder and now recently his younger brother ) and the manufacturer who has ( in spite of being an old man ) has a reputation for beating DEA's most  deadly traps in the past. The younger brother ( bait ) has for some reason developed a genuine liking and respect for the big manufacturer from Panama / Laos and while the shoot and chase scenes which occur due to the greed of a corrupt local police captain ( the DEA bait gets exposed before both the mob and their big-shot guest from abroad ). The local mob decides to kill the big manufacturer too, knowing too well that in case he gets nabbed, he won't hesitate a moment in singing everything about the local mob, for his own benefit. Using car phone the bait somehow convinces DEA to treat the visiting narcotics exporter as approver against the boss. The mob boss, who has always been suspected (  both by the  media and the law-agencies ) to be  the night-face of the one of nation's topmost legitimate business-tycoons, actually turns out to be his spoiled son, who due to testimonies of both the brave young man and big-time manufacturer from abroad, ( kept in judicial custody for standing in the court ), actually due to DEA's and Federal government's anticipatory pardon ( for which the younger brother's emotional side fought while the manufacturer kept the car moving at gunpoint in direction of a certain helipad, where as it happened each time he left his harbor-of-a-nation for a very big deal where financier ( whose hundreds of millions would be at stake ) insisted ( rightly ) on seeing his face, a helicopter was kept ready to flee back to safety ( even that was just one-among-many of his safety back-outs ). At the end, the manufacturer, having undergone the trouble of being a sincere prosecution witness, leaves free as air as does the bait, while the mobboss, due to immense and undoubted evidence against gets nothing less than death punishment. His sidekick, the enforcer who committed inhuman acts against the elder brother commits suicide in prison.150.129.198.144 (talk) 23:17, 3 April 2018 (UTC)

That much detail, and Google has failed you? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 05:16, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

"Two brothers living in same city. One (the elder ) is living a bit above his standards and careless about his health, hence famously obese in the circle of his familiarity. The younger brother - athletic, hardworking businessman, who is ambitious but law-abiding" Do you remember the names of the two main characters? They might be more useful for tracking down information than descriptions of their occupations. Dimadick (talk) 09:31, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

That's a lot of reading to expect of people. :-) The material you've set out is the way that a person would need to collect the detail and that's fine as far as it goes, but it then means that you'd have to stumble upon a person who specifically knows that book from memory (and the wall of text will mean that fewer people will bother to read through all that detail anyway). What would help (and Dimadick has it exactly right) is to figure out specific keywords so that a computer-aided search can be done. Go for specific terms you remember (names especially, but anything that might be unique). Providing a more concise summary will mean more people will read your question and providing more specific items will allow people skilled at searching to help you out even if they've never read the book in question. Matt Deres (talk) 12:50, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

If the OP lives in the USA, then he may ask one of the subject librarians at his local or university library. Big libraries in the US have a wealth of resources, including subject librarians. Each subject librarian claims to be an expert in a specific field. I will suggest consulting a subject librarian or expert on literature. English-language literature may be well supported, as the librarians are foremost English speakers. 140.254.70.33 (talk) 14:09, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

That's the trouble, pals - it's been a long-long time since I read it. I know, telling the names of a character or two would be far helpful, if I could remember! Besides I don't live in any western country, let alone USA, but in a third world nation. My only hope is that maybe someone on RD remembers a thriller written long ago ! : OP 150.129.196.211 (talk) 21:09, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

If you don't remember a name, maybe you can remember some words or phrases that might have been used close together? If so, try a Google Books search. (Use double quotes for phrases.) It might not find anything helpful, but then again it might work. --69.159.62.113 (talk) 06:00, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

If all else fails, try submitting your description above as a plot summary for your proposed novel to a literary agent, and see which work they accuse you of plagiarising. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.2130.195} 2.218.14.51 (talk) 08:18, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

Now that's hell of an idea ! :OP 203.134.197.217 (talk) 16:49, 7 April 2018 (UTC)