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The mercenaries
Author: Donald E Westlake
Westlake's other crime novels include The Hunter, The Seventh and Busy Body, all of which were made into major motion pictures. The Mercenaries, Westlake's fist novel, is a riveting New York gangster thriller with a narcotic twist. This tough mystery can be placed alongisde the best of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler.
ISBN-13: 9780140024531
ISBN-10: 0140024530
Pages: 169
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Publisher: Penguin
Book Type: Unknown Binding
Other Versions: Paperback
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Mavis St. Paul has been murdered, and Billy-Billy Cantell, a stuttering dope user/seller is the prime suspect. Only there's no way he could've done it. His friend and colleague Clay believes this and, following orders from their boss, gangster Ed Ganolese, is trying to clear his name because the police aren't interested in another suspect.

But Billy-Billy has disappeared, and the police are getting too involved in Ganolese's operation, so Clay (who creates "accidents" for people who cross Ganolese) has to play amateur detective and discover who the "cutie" (as Ganolese refers to him) is that killed Mavis and framed Billy-Billy, apparently just to sabotage Ganolese's outfit.


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