In Rome for the Olympics, Drum witnesses an assassination When he was in college, Kyle Ryder picked up athletic records effortlessly. Now he picks up girls. An Olympic-quality javelin thrower, he has recently fallen for a Czechoslovakian Amazon named Hilda, whose weapon of choice is the discus. On
Peril Is My Pay
β Scribed by Stephen Marlowe
- Publisher
- Fawcett
- Year
- 1960;2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 151 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
In Rome for the Olympics, Drum witnesses an assassinationWhen he was in college, Kyle Ryder picked up athletic records effortlessly. Now he picks up girls. An Olympic-quality javelin thrower, he has recently fallen for a Czechoslovakian Amazon named Hilda, whose weapon of choice is the discus. On the eve of the Rome summer Olympics, Kyleβs father hires private detective Chester Drum to follow his son. He doesnβt mind the girlβitβs her Soviet handlers who make him nervous.Β The Olympic torch hasnβt even been lit when their love affair takes its first casualty. Their Italian go-between, Signor Mozzoni, is crossing the street when a CitroΓ«n runs him down. With their protector dead, Kyle and his girlfriend vanish. If Drum doesnβt find the missing athletes quickly, the Soviet trainers will give them a workout from which theyβll never recover.
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