ENGLISH

The Vig

By John Lescroart

Book information

Publisher
Thorndike Press
Year
2007
ISBN
0786292679, 9780786292677
Open Library ID
OL8137650M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
602 kB (616058 bytes)
Series
Dismas Hardy volume 2
Pages
541\0
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

Payback is murder.A beautiful woman paid it with her body.  A seedy lawyer used somebody else's money.  It's the vig--the exorbitant interest mob loan sharks take on their money.  Now, in the city by the Bay, everyone has to pay...Down-and-out-lawyer Rusty Ingraham left behind a murdered woman and a houseboat splattered with blood.  All the evidence said Ingraham was in San Francisco Bay.  Dead.  But a friend of Ingraham's, former cop and prosecutor Dismas Hardy, isn't so sure.  And Hardy has to find out, because a stone-cold killer, now paroled, once threatened to kill Ingraham and Dismas Hardy both.Now, to save his own skin, Dismas must face down liars and killers on both sides of the law.  From mob foot soldiers to brokenhearted lovers to renegade cops, a dozen lives are tied to the fate of Rusty Ingraham--and the payback has only just begun....

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