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One Good Deed
David Baldacci
出版
Hachette UK
, 2019-07-23
主題
Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense
Fiction / Action & Adventure
Fiction / Thrillers / Historical
ISBN
1538750554
9781538750551
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=R66HDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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In this fast-paced historical thriller, the #1
New York Times
bestselling author introduces Archer, a WWII veteran forced to investigate a small-town murder -- or risk returning to prison.
It's 1949. When war veteran Aloysius Archer is released from Carderock Prison, he is sent to Poca City on parole with a short list of
do
's and a much longer list of
don't
s:
do
report regularly to his parole officer,
don't
go to bars, certainly
don't
drink alcohol,
do
get a job -- and
don't
ever associate with loose women.
The small town quickly proves more complicated and dangerous than Archer's years serving in the war or his time in jail. Within a single night, his search for gainful employment -- and a stiff drink -- leads him to a local bar, where he is hired for what seems like a simple job: to collect a debt owed to a powerful local businessman, Hank Pittleman.
Soon Archer discovers that recovering the debt won't be so easy. The indebted man has a furious grudge against Hank and refuses to pay; Hank's clever mistress has her own designs on Archer; and both Hank and Archer's stern parole officer, Miss Crabtree, are keeping a sharp eye on him.
When a murder takes place right under Archer's nose, police suspicions rise against the ex-convict, and Archer realizes that the crime could send him right back to prison . . . if he doesn't use every skill in his arsenal to track down the real killer.