Author: Wallace Stroby
Publisher: Minotaur Book
Keywords: novels, rane, harry, lounge, heartbreak
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-11-09
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 031265118X
ISBN-13: 9780312651183

Ex-state trooper Harry Rane, who first appeared in Wallace Stroby’s brilliant debut novel, The Barbed-Wire Kiss, is at loose ends. Doing some investigative work for a friend’s firm just to keep himself busy, Harry meets Nikki Ellis, a woman desperate for help. Her ex, Johnny Harrow, was just released from prison after a seven-year stretch for attempted murder. Nikki hasn’t spoken to him since he went down, but she knows what he’s capable of, and that he’ll be looking for her-and for the baby she put up for adoption after Johnny went away. She knows it’s up t

Author: Wallace Stroby
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Keywords: rane, novels, harry, novel, wire, kiss, barbed
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2003-02-25
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0312650752
ISBN-13: 9780312650759

Two years ago, Harry Rane took early retirement from the New Jersey State police after being shot in the line of duty. Now he lives one day at a time. It’s not much, but he gets by. Things change when Bobby Fox, an old childhood friend, calls for help. A small-time dealer who’s taken one last chance, Bobby’s in over his head for $50,000 to Eddie Fallon, a local crime boss. Harry goes to see Fallon, hoping to work something out, but it’s hard to negotiate with a man like Fallon. The one thing Harry does learn is that he and Fallon have something in common-Fallon’s