Pages
184
Year
2012
Language
English

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Brock finds a case that's too juicy to refuse Brock Callahan was still playing for the Los Angeles Rams when Alan Arthur Baker first conned him. Masquerading as an investment banker, Baker talked the hapless jock out of $5,000, returning it only when Brock threatened to snap his back in half. Years later, Brock is a retired private detective living in the splendor of the Los Angeles suburbs, and Baker needs help tailing his wife, a high-priced call girl who may be in danger. The old grifter is as crooked as they come, but too charming for Brock to say no.   Brock puts protégé Corey Raleigh on the case, but can't help keeping an eye on the investigation. When the boy detective runs into trouble, Brock throws himself into the middle of a mystery involving a retired palooka, a brutal heiress, and the famous estate of one of the richest men California has ever known.

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"[Gault] can write, never badly and sometimes like an angel."
Fredric Brown, author of The Fabulous Clipjoint
"A legend in his own time."
Bill Pronzini, creator of the Nameless Detective series
"Brock Callahan is surely one of the major private detectives created in American fiction since Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe."
Fredric Brown, author of The Fabulous Clipjoint

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