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Poisoned Pen Press
July 2003
Featuring: Eddie Bourque; Lucy Orr
240 pages
ISBN: 1590580591
EAN: 9781590580592
Hardcover
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Mystery Police Procedural
Reporter Eddie Bourque chases stories for the Lowell
Empire, a second-class rag in a Massachusetts city of first-
generation immigrants and bare-knuckled politicians. The
talented and ambitious Eddie has one eye on finding a
better job. However, when the dead junkie found floating in
a mill canal is identified as his beat partner, he gives
the story his full attention. That is, until he finds
himself stonewalled by powerbrokers in Lowell law
enforcement and at his own newspaper. Bent on finding his
partner’s killer, Eddie disobeys orders and follows a
mysterious Cambodian woman into the city’s poorest
neighborhood, with violent results. Battered, dumped in a
canal and left for dead, Eddie survives an encounter with
an invisible underworld, only to find himself entangled in
an international plot of murder and revenge. It’s do or die
for Eddie as he struggles to stay one step ahead of
ruthless hitmen, the city’s self-serving power elite, and
the curious police detective who always shows up when Eddie
wishes she wouldn’t. The story of a lifetime beckons, but
the closer he comes to the truth, the greater the chance
that the story—and Eddie—will be spiked.
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