Zoe really comes alive when she's acting, so she's thrilled when she lands a leading role at the local theatre. But when rehearsals begin, strange things start to happen. She has disturbing blackouts and terrible dreams. Only Jack, the quiet, charismatic stagehand, seems to understand what she's goi
The Last Act
β Scribed by Parks, Brad
- Book ID
- 110488117
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 451 KB
- Series
- The Last Act 1
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781524743536
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β¦ Synopsis
Award-winning author Brad Parks delivers a tense novel of thrills, twists, and deceit that grabs you and won't let go until the final, satisfying page.
Tommy Jump is an out-of-work stage actor approached by the FBI with the role of a lifetime: Go undercover at a federal prison, impersonate a convicted felon, and befriend a fellow inmate, a disgraced banker named Mitchell Dupree who knows the location of documents that can be used to bring down a ruthless drug cartel. . . if only he'd tell the FBI where they are.
The women in Tommy's life, his fiancΓ©e and mother, tell him he's crazy to even consider taking the part. The cartel has quickly risen to become the largest supplier of crystal meth in America. And it hasn't done it by playing nice. Still, Tommy's acting career has stalled, and the FBI is offering a minimum of $150,000 for a six-month gigβwhether he gets the documents or not.
Using a false name and backstory, Tommy enters the...
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