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Jack Doyle #6
Poisoned Pen Press
December 2014
On Sale: December 2, 2014
Featuring: Jack Doyle; Niall Hanratty; Harvey Rexroth
250 pages
ISBN: 1464202745
EAN: 9781464202742
Kindle: 1464202745
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Irreverent Jack Doyle has worn many hats, one or two blown off by his irrepressible temper. A former boxer, advertising rep, and publicity man, Jackβs midlife career has been shaped by the world of thoroughbred horse racing and dark deeds therein. So itβs no surprise when two FBI agents heβs sleuthed with before pressure him to identify an animal activist who is carrying out βmercy killingsβ of retired race horses donated to Midwestern university veterinary schools. Plus two Chicago senior citizens are being threatened by an imperious Internet millionaire intent on owning their beloved horse. Then a call comes from Ireland where the life of Jackβs friend Niall Hanratty, the noted bookmaker, is under attack from an unknown enemy. Meanwhile Doyleβs nemesis Harvey Rexroth, the rapacious media mogul Jack helped put into federal prison, enlists a fellow inmate, a Mobconnected attorney, to have Jack killed. Carrying out this contract will be W. D. Wiems, a brilliant, frighteningly warped University of Kansas student who has eagerly launched a career of murder for hire. Fast tracking, Jack visits vet schools while juggling pieces of investigations near home and traveling twice to Ireland where his quest to find Hanrattyβs enemy takes him to Kinsale, Connemara, and a Dublin slum. Meanwhile the vicious contract killer is, all unknown, tracking Jackβ¦
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