The Old Dick
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3.8 • 34 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL.
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Retired private eye Jake Spanner may have gotten old, but he hasn't gone soft. When an old gangster Jake put away some forty years ago shows up at his door, it's time for Jake to grab his hat and Browning automatic and get back to work.
Old? Sure. Slower to catch his breath? Maybe. But, sharp as a tack and with a lifetime of investigating know-how, Jake Spanner has nothing to lose and everything to prove. Sniffing out leads between Sunset Boulevard and the Hollywood Hills, Jake pulls in old friends to help. The work is hard; it's gritty. So is Jake. And, with a three quarters of a million dollars ransom at stake, the bad guys don't stand a chance.
With THE OLD DICK, author L.A. Morse creates a new kind of hero, one that laughs at death not because he's too young to understand it, but because it's right around the corner. It's time to face it head on and maybe go out swinging.
Customer Reviews
Not a bad read
The story is all right. Dialogue good. Hero’s philosophizing gets tiring. Book copyrighted 1981 - not the fairly recent pub Apple says.
A good read
The title caught me. At first when I started reading it I paused and said do I really want to read this. Decided snd kept reading. Glad I did. Twists and turns on the edge of your seat it ended with satisfaction. I recommend
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With a title like that how can you go wrong? 8=D~~~~~