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First edition, later released with different titles. Tight, clean, flat, square books with edge wear, creased spines, toned pages.
Someone is trying to scare Benny Bartlett, a freelance writer in Seattle into leaving the Jet City…and he has no clue why. It starts with threatening phone calls but escalates into gunfire. The police won’t help, despite clear evidence of attempted murder, so Benny calls his old friend Bragg, who returns to his hometown to get answers. But he soon has to face his own, troubled past when his long lost ex-wife unexpectedly reappears, opening old wounds. Things quickly become explosive…literally. Bragg emerges from the flames into a hailstorm of bullets, beatings and bodies…a blast from the past that could put him in a grave. ***
Desperate men with nothing to lose make one last demand. Get Peter Bragg.
SPEAK FOR THE DEAD The Shamus Award-nominated fifth novel in Jack Lynch’s Edgar-Award-nominated series of detective novels. An escape attempt at San Quentin goes to hell, a guard is beaten into a coma, and the hard-core convicts retreat to a corner of the prison with their hostages, including two civilian women. It’s a deadly stand-off…a bloody powder-keg ready to explode into a full-scale massacre. The cornered, desperate prisoners have one demand: they want private eye Peter Bragg to clear the ringleader’s teenage brother of a murder charge in a small, northern California town. It’s a high-stakes case with a brutal ticking clock, and it pits Bragg against cops, neo-Nazis and powerful enemies who would like to see him, the convicts, and the hostages all go down in a hail of flames and gunfire that would keep their secrets from ever being revealed. ***
A DIRTY CASE FROM THE BEGINNING...
The quiet community of Sausalito is the site of a glittering new hotel complex. But Peter Bragg, work-ing on a blackmail case in the area, senses some-thing else simmering beneath the ocean-kissed beachfront. Residents are being "persuaded" to give up their homes to the developers. The means of persuasion? Arson, torture, and murder. And when the blackmail case blows up in his face literally he knows he's onto something big. A street-smart black lady, a very friendly cock-tail waitress, a poor little rich girl, and an army of hardcases who enjoy making ground beef of nosy detectives...Bragg smells a conspiracy so immense that his own life isn't worth a paper dollar if he doesn't bring the criminals to justice. And if any-body can, Bragg will. |