**The Fate of England's Monarchy Is In The Hands of Three Notorious Rakes.** *To prevent three royal dukes from marrying their way onto the throne, heroic, selfless agents for the crown will be dispatched...to seduce the dukes' intended brides. These wickedly debauched rakes will rumple sheets and
Jack Wakes Up
โ Scribed by Seth Harwood
- Publisher
- Crown/Archetype;Crown Publishing Group
- Year
- 2008;2009
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 229 KB
- Edition
- [1st Three Rivers Press ed.]
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Washed-up movie star Jack Palms is knee-deep in a Bay Area drug war and it'll take the performance of a lifetime to get him through it alive.
In the three years since Jack Palms left Hollywood and kicked his drug habit, he's added fourteen pounds of muscle, read eighty-three books, and played it as straight as anyone could reasonably ask. But the residual checks are drying up, and the ascetic lifestyle's starting to wear thin, so Jack's happy to cash in on his former celebrity by showing some out-of-town high rollers around San Francisco's club scene.
Then people start turning up dead, and Jack realizes he's been playing tour guide to a pack of former KGB agents turned coke dealers. Soon he's got too many gunmen after him to count--including a South American drug cartel, a mountain-sized Samoan enforcer, and a mobbed-up strip-club owner with an army of thugs. That's not to mention the gorgeous bartender who may be planning on shooting him in the back and the...
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