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The Last Straw

Ed Duncan

Publisher: Next Chapter

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Summary

When a teenage girl witnesses a carjacking gone bad, she is marked for death by a crime boss.
 
A lawyer and an enforcer forge an uneasy alliance to protect the girl from a hit man with an agenda of his own. Soon after, Paul Elliott - lawyer and close friend of the witness's family - begins counseling them and becomes entangled in the murder plot.
 
As the long-simmering feud between Rico - the white enforcer - and the hitman John D'Angelo reaches boiling point, bodies start to pile up in rapid succession... and old scores will be settled.
Available since: 02/05/2022.
Print length: 227 pages.

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