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Pantheon
August 2006
256 pages
ISBN: 0375424229
Hardcover
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Mystery Private Eye
They meet in a noβname diner. A shadowy man hands Burke a CD dossier of someone he wants found. Minutes later, as Burke watches from an alley, his client is gunned down by a professional hunterβkiller team. Burke slips away, unsure if heβs been spotted. Later, when he examines the dossier, he discovers that the missing woman is Beryl Preston, a girl heβd rescued from a brutal pimp twenty years earlierβwhen she was only thirteenβand returned to her father. Now he has to find her againβnot only because she might be in danger, but also because he has to prove to himself that his rescue mission hadnβt been financed by a predator who wanted his βpropertyβ returned. His search will force him to confront a new kind of human ugliness and, finally, to practice the survivalist triage that has markedβand cursedβhis life since childhood. In Mask Market, Burke the outlaw investigator finds himself searching for the truth: not only about a girl named Beryl, but also about himself.
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