**The gilded adventures of Ramses the Damned, iconic creation of the legendary bestselling author, continue in this breathtakingly suspenseful tale of a titanic supernatural power unleashed on the eve of war.** A pharaoh made immortal by a mysterious and powerful elixir, Ramses the Great became
The Damsel
โ Scribed by AudioGO (Firm);Bray, R. C.;Stark, Richard
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press; AudioGO
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 102 KB
- Series
- Alan Grofield mysteries 1
- Edition
- Unabridged
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Mexico, North Kingstown, R.I., Mexico.
- ISBN
- 0792794001
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โฆ Synopsis
Escaping from the pages of the master crime writer's acclaimed Parker novels, a fast-talking actor-thief has an adventure of his own across Mexico.
For years now, stage actor Alan Grofield has supported his craft with side gigs in the underworld, including a few dangerous heists with a ruthless criminal named Parker. After their last scheme, Grofield finds himself stranded in Mexico with a bullet wound and a bag of cash. And then things start to get interesting--when he watches a young woman climbing into his fifth-floor hotel window.
It turns out Elly Fitzgerald has a taste for trouble to match Grofield's penchant for finding it. When the hoods she's running from catch up to her, she and Grofield set out on an action-packed road trip from Mexico City to Acapulco, hoping to stop an assassination along the way. The first Alan Grofield novel by crime fiction master Donald E. Westlake writing as Richard Stark, The Damsel is full of wit,...
โฆ Subjects
Mexico
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