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Del Rey
May 2005
288 pages
ISBN: 0345464788
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Paranormal | Suspense
It’s three thousand miles from the green fields of glory,
where Henry “call me Hank” Thompson once played California
baseball, to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where the
tenements are old, the rents are high, and the drunks are
dirty. But now Hank is here, working as a bartender and
taking care of a cat named Bud who is surely going to get
him killed. It begins when Hank’s neighbor, Russ, has to leave town in a
rush and hands over Bud in a carrier. But it isn’t until two
Russians in tracksuits drag Hank over the bar at the joint
where he works and beat him to a pulp that he starts to get
the idea: Someone wants something from him. He just doesn’t
know what it is, where it is, or how to make them understand
he doesn’t have it. Within twenty-four hours Hank is running over rooftops,
swinging his old aluminum bat for the sweet spot of a guy’s
head, playing hide and seek with the NYPD, riding the subway
with a dead man at his side, and counting a whole lot of
cash on a concrete floor. All because of two cowboys, two Russian mafia men, and some
of the weirdest goons ever assembled in one place. All
because of Bud. All because once, in another life, in
another world, the only thing Hank wanted was to take third
base—without getting caught.
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