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The Right Wrong Number
Jim Nesbitt
Ed Earl Burch
Spotted Mule Press
February 2017
On Sale: February 16, 2017
308 pages
ISBN: 0998329401
EAN: 9780998329406
Kindle: B01NC0GSK6
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Suspense | Thriller
When the phone rings long after midnight, it spells trouble
of the lethal kind for Dallas private eye Ed Earl Burch in a
gritty and relentless hard-boiled thriller that races from
the gleaming towers of Houston to the decadent charms of New
Orleans and the stark desert mountains of the Texas Big Bend
country and northern Mexico. Burch is a cashiered homicide detective with bad knees, a
wounded liver and an empty bank account. He’s been hired to
protect an old flame after the disappearance of her husband,
a high-flying Houston financier who ripped off his clients,
including some deeply unsavory gentlemen from New Orleans. It’s a simple job that goes wrong fast, plunging Burch into
a ruthless contest where nothing and nobody can be trusted.
Money and sex tempt him to break his own rules—twin
temptations served up by the old flame, a rangy strawberry
blonde with a violent temper and a terminal knack for
larceny and betrayal. Those New Orleans gentlemen give the game a more murderous
edge by sending two hitmen to reclaim their stolen goods and
kill anybody involved in the score. Burch also faces an old adversary, Houston homicide
detective Cider Jones, a mystic with Comanche blood who
blames Burch for his partner’s death and wouldn’t mind
seeing him wind up dead. When his best friend gets murdered in Dallas by hired
muscle, Burch blames himself and grimly sets out for
vengeance that also delivers a bloody form of redemption. The action is as remorseless and unpredictable as a runaway
cement truck, leading to a lonely white chapel in an
abandoned mining town on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande.
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