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Pale Kings And Princes

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Wheaton is a typical New England small-college town, not the sort of place for drugs and murder. But when a reporter gets too inquisitive, he finds both — the latter on his own.

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Spenser's call comes when the local cops work a cover. He needs help to solve this one — Hawk for back-up and Susan for insight on the basics of jealousy, passion and hate!

What the trio finds is a cutthroat cocaine ring, where drugs have value supreme and human life has none at all.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 320 pages

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