Amos Walker #20
Forge Books
January 2013
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Featuring: Amos Waker; Lucile Lettermore; Joseph Michael Ballista
304 pages ISBN: 0765319578 EAN: 9780765319579 Kindle: 0765319578 Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
Joseph Michael BallistaββJoey Ballisticβ to his mob buddiesβknows most of the ways to make an illegal buck, or a βleft-handed dollar.β That's why he's in trouble again. But his crafty lawyer, Lucille LettermoreββLefty Lucyβ to just about every prosecutor she's ever humiliated in courtβis determined to free him by getting all his previous convictions set aside, starting with one for attempted murder.
When she hires Detroit private detective Amos Walker to look into the old crime, she immediately has a problem: the intended victim was investigative reporter Barry Stackpole, Walker's only real friend. Walker's not thrilled to help get his buddy's would-be killer off the hook. But money's money. It won't be easy. For starters, though Joey's ex-wives grudgingly talk with Walker, he knows they're not really leveling with him. And two new murders tied to the case aren't likely to make them chattier.
Walker, friendless and desperate for answers, follows a string of leads old and new straight into a war of nerves and bullets in Detroit's seedy crime-ridden underbelly. It'll be a dirty job for Walker in The Left-Handed Dollar, Loren D. Estleman's twentieth Amos Walker mystery.
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