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In Calibre .50, master storyteller Robert Sheckley trades his signature science fiction for the razor-edged world of noir, delivering a lean, brutal, and irresistibly stylish mystery. This Stephen Dain adventure hurtles through a landscape of deception, greed, and double-crosses, where every smile hides a gun and every alliance comes with a price tag. When private investigator Dain takes what seems like a routine assignment, he soon finds himself caught between rival gangsters, corrupt officials, and a woman whose charm is as lethal as the weapon in the book's title.Sheckley's prose crackles with cynical humor and clipped precision. Beneath the hardboiled action lies a mordant intelligence that dissects the moral decay of postwar America - a society where violence and irony walk hand in hand. With its breakneck pacing and existential cool, Calibre .50 stands alongside the best of Hammett and Spillane, yet carries Sheckley's own signature wit and satirical bite.More than a conventional detective story, Calibre .50 reveals the elasticity of Sheckley's genius - his ability to bend genre to his will, to find human absurdity even in blood and betrayal. This is pulp fiction at its purest: tough, fast, and unforgettable.