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Poverty Bay

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Lance Tyner has inherited his grandfather's wealth, and he hopes to spend it helping people. His father, brother and sister have other ideas for the money, and none of them are generous. When Lance disappears, private investigator Thomas Black takes up the search, tracing the young man's steps into the rough neighborhoods where the city's poorest people scrape by, and where people who go looking for trouble often wind up dead. The case becomes a hunt through a hard, dangerous world, and Black has to decide how far he is willing to go to find the missing heir.

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