An alcoholic soldier of fortune, serving as a bodyguard to the daughter of an Italian industrialist, sets out on a private war of revenge against an entire Mafia organization when his young charge is brutally kidnapped
Man on Fire
โ Scribed by Quinnell, A J
- Book ID
- 108377175
- Publisher
- Avon Books
- Year
- 1980
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 163 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
Creasy thought he had nothing left to lose. He was wrong. An American soldier of fortune far from home -- alcoholic, burnt out, and broken down -- Creasy has accepted a job as a bodyguard just for something to do. An emotionally dead, one-time warrior, he knows that nothing can pierce the hard shell he's built around himself -- until the little girl he's been hired to protect somehow breaks through. But having something to care about again in making Creasy vulnerable. And when the unthinkable occurs, a man on fire won't just burn ... he'll explode.
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