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Kill and Be Killed

✍ Scribed by Louis Begley


Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Year
2016
Tongue
en-US
Weight
169 KB
Edition
First edition
Category
Fiction

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✦ Synopsis


Master stylist Begley continues the story of Jack Dana, the former Marine Corps officer turned novelist whose quest to avenge his murdered uncle takes a new, more dangerous turn.

The man who brutally murdered Uncle Harry is dead. In an effort to recover from the confrontation and collect himself, Jack takes refuge on Torcello, a small island in the Venetian lagoon, to return to his writing career. Even more urgently, he wants to win back Kerry, the beautiful lawyer who rejected him after the bloody episode with Harry's assassin.
But events beyond Jack's control intervene: Kerry loses her life in circumstances that contradict everything Jack thinks he knew about her. Soon death begins to stalk Jack himself. It is impossible not to recognize in its drumbeat the machinations of Abner Brown, the man who orchestrated Harry's demise.
Jack fights back, driven by cold rage and determination to complete his revenge. At his side is Kerry's best friend, the...


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