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"Joe Kurtz has no intention of giving up his chosen profession of private investigator, even though he's just spent 12 years in jail. He believes it's only a matter of finding the right case. But that case will never come to him, so he pays a call on Byron Tatick Farino, mob boss, and suggests that for $400 a day plus expenses, he'll try to find the Family's missing accountant and also figure out who's hijacking the Family's trucks. Farino is inclined to let him do this since he has nothing to l
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This is a bit more hard-boiled than I usually enjoy: there's a lot of killing and violence, and the the detective protagonist Joe Kurtz is one of the characters dishing it out as well as taking it. At first glance, he's not really what you'd consider a "likeable" character. And yet I did like him. He clearly has his own moral code, with loyalty very high on the list. It's a bit hard keeping up with the scrapes he gets into and out of, and there's clearly stuff going on that the reader doesn't le
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Mar 20, 2011
Heather (DeathByBook)
marked it as to-read
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