Susan “Sam”
Susan “Sam” asked Jim Nesbitt:

Hi Jim! If you ever get up central VA, give me a call. I'll serve either sweet tea or cold beer, whatever your preference. You look like a fellow I could shake hands with. Why would I start spending money on Ed Burch? What's so special about him?

Jim Nesbitt Ed Earl is a bit of an Everyman, battered by life but still swinging. He's not super smart like Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe and he isn't super cool like Steve McQueen in Bullitt. He dogged and determined -- smart enough, tough enough, profane and reckless. And deeply flawed. People have a habit of underestimating him and he makes them pay for that mistake -- with cuffs or a bullet. Doesn't matter to him. And he attracts unsavory but unforgettable characters like flies.

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