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Death of a Citizen

Matt Helm seriesbook 1 of 27Next:The Wrecking Crew(1960) →

Somebody opened my coffin that night in the middle of a cocktail party. I'd been all but dead these 15 years, turned into a household pet by a wife and kids.

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But now the girl whom I'd known by the code name Tina had walked back into my life — and 15 years of settled, complacent living slipped away. I was back in that time when our world had been savage and alive, when I had been a lethal young animal trained to kill in cold blood — and she had been my partner.

And I knew that I was ready to follow her again to the depths of that private hell we had shared.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 142 pages

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