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One good deed
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- ISBN: 9781538750728
- ISBN: 1538750724
- ISBN: 9781538750551
- ISBN: 1538750554
- ISBN: 9781538750568
- ISBN: 1538750562
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1 online resource (416 pages) - Publisher: New York : Grand Central Publishing, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019
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| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Subject: | Ex-convicts -- Fiction Veterans -- Fiction Murder -- Fiction FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense Ex-convicts Murder Veterans |
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Summary:
It's 1949. When war veteran Aloysius Archer is released from Carderock Prison, he is sent to Poca City on parole with a short list of do's and a much longer list of don'ts: do report regularly to his parole officer, don't go to bars, certainly don't drink alcohol, do get a job -- and don't ever associate with loose women. The small town quickly proves more complicated and dangerous than Archer's years serving in the war or his time in jail. Within a single night, his search for gainful employment -- and a stiff drink -- leads him to a local bar, where he is hired for what seems like a simple job: to collect a debt owed to a powerful local businessman, Hank Pittleman. Soon Archer discovers that recovering the debt won't be so easy. The indebted man has a furious grudge against Hank and refuses to pay; Hank's clever mistress has her own designs on Archer; and both Hank and Archer's stern parole officer, Miss Crabtree, are keeping a sharp eye on him. When a murder takes place right under Archer's nose, police suspicions rise against the ex-convict, and Archer realizes that the crime could send him right back to prison... if he doesn't use every skill in his arsenal to track down the real killer.
