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Book, 1999
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Current format, Book, 1999, , No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsPrivate detective Mario Balzic, whose heart is acting up, returns to investigate the disappearance of guns from a local shop and finds himself confronted with a number of dangerous and powerful suspects, including a local politician and a police chief
Private detective Mario Balzic, whose heart is acting up, returns to investigate the disappearance of guns from a local shop and finds himself confronted with a number of dangerous and powerful suspects, including a local politician and a police chief. 12,000 first printing.
Mario Balzic the inimitable police chief (retired) of a small western Pennsylvania industrial town, is back on a case and getting a powerful taste of mortality, especially his own...
Balzic swaps the uniform service regs of the public cop for the uniform shirt and tie of the private cop, trading his onetime blue-collar beat for a new white-collar clientele. There's been a burglary at the local gun shop. Hired by an old friend, attorney Mo Valcanas, Balzic must track down the missing arsenal for the insurance company.
As no one knows better than a seasoned cop, stolen guns can only point to even bigger trouble. Under Balzic's dogged sleuthing, said trouble takes the form of a corrupt married politico cheating with a stripper; a police chief a couple of towns over hungry for the influence a little improved firepower can buy; a deli owner known as the Fat Buddha who mixes racketeering with the cold cuts; and the gangster's hapless nephew, framed for selling porn and drugs.
A couple of deadly curves interrupt his search. Not long from losing his mother, the cholesterol-laden Balzic is brought low by a sudden cardiac episode. This intimately personal crisis combines with an equally sudden murder to turn a solitary job into a singular mission: to stay alive, at least long enough to crack one more case....
Private detective Mario Balzic, whose heart is acting up, returns to investigate the disappearance of guns from a local shop and finds himself confronted with a number of dangerous and powerful suspects, including a local politician and a police chief. 12,000 first printing.
Mario Balzic the inimitable police chief (retired) of a small western Pennsylvania industrial town, is back on a case and getting a powerful taste of mortality, especially his own...
Balzic swaps the uniform service regs of the public cop for the uniform shirt and tie of the private cop, trading his onetime blue-collar beat for a new white-collar clientele. There's been a burglary at the local gun shop. Hired by an old friend, attorney Mo Valcanas, Balzic must track down the missing arsenal for the insurance company.
As no one knows better than a seasoned cop, stolen guns can only point to even bigger trouble. Under Balzic's dogged sleuthing, said trouble takes the form of a corrupt married politico cheating with a stripper; a police chief a couple of towns over hungry for the influence a little improved firepower can buy; a deli owner known as the Fat Buddha who mixes racketeering with the cold cuts; and the gangster's hapless nephew, framed for selling porn and drugs.
A couple of deadly curves interrupt his search. Not long from losing his mother, the cholesterol-laden Balzic is brought low by a sudden cardiac episode. This intimately personal crisis combines with an equally sudden murder to turn a solitary job into a singular mission: to stay alive, at least long enough to crack one more case....
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