Outlaw Brazos races to take a "hit job" from Whisper Monahan. But things soon take a supernatural spin when Brazos acquires a second shadow after killing a witch doctor, who with his last breath, swears a deadly curse upon his soul.
Dead Men Kill: Stories from the Golden Age
β Scribed by L. Ron Hubbard
- Publisher
- Galaxy Press, L.L.C.
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 291 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Detective Terry Lane is a standout homicide cop who thought he'd seen it all...until now.
As tough as Eliot Ness of The Untouchables--and just as incorruptible--Lane has seen the darkest side of human behavior. But he's never seen a murder spree like this, targeting the wealthy, the powerful and the privileged. For the evidence is clear: the killers have not emerged from the seamy underside of the city...but from six feet under it. They are the walking dead, spreading terror and showing no mercy.
Following a trail of drugs, blackmail, and the twisted clues of a seductive nightclub singer, Detective Lane will have to think outside the box...or he could end up inside one, buried alive.
In 1934, while living in New York, the heart of the publishing industry, Hubbard struck up a friendship with the city's medical examiner--a relationship that started his education in undetectable crime and provided him with authoritative clinical background for his...
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