**A truck hijacking on a New York street goes badly awry in this new novel from an author who writes "top-notch hard-boiled crime fiction" (** Booklist**).** It was a sure thing. A truck with a thousand cartons of cigarettes, at a wholesale price of sixty dollars each. Mike Tedesco had thought
The Wrong Side of the Grass
β Scribed by Stephen Solomita
- Book ID
- 112260756
- Publisher
- MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
- Year
- 2023
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 543 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781504078672
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β¦ Synopsis
**A truck hijacking on a New York street goes badly awry in this new novel from an author who writes "**top-notch hard-boiled crime fiction" (Booklist).
It was a sure thing. A truck with a thousand cartons of cigarettes, at a wholesale price of sixty dollars each. Mike Tedesco had thought through the foolproof plan for the early-morning hijacking. The only tricky part was disabling the GPS system that enabled the owner to track the truck and its valuable contents. He brought along the expert who swore he could do it in three minutes. He couldn't, so Tedesco shot him dead in the middle of the rainy street in uptown Manhattan before fleeing the scene.
NYPD Detective Dante Cepeda is called in and quickly decides he can solve this one--his great joy--as he explains to the attractive redheaded sergeant who works the case with him. The hunt leads Cepeda to a Russian mafioso, Tedesco's gorgeous girlfriend, a curse that needs a blood...
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