| Drawing Dead Contributor(s): Gadziola, Rick (Author) |
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ISBN: 1550227386 ISBN-13: 9781550227383 Publisher: ECW Press OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2006 Annotation: In the third installment of the Jake Morgan mystery series, Jake finds himself hitting it off with a beautiful high roller in her sumptuous Las Vegas suite when an assassin enters and breaks the lady's bliss by popping two lead pills into her forehead. Jake Morgan's friend, Lieutenant Oakley, is given the case and makes Jake's life miserable until he is finally cleared, but before the woman's body is even flown home, femme fatale Laura Bulloch, falls for Jake and gets him caught in the crossfire between two groups of dirty cops out to kill each other. Bullets fly and bodies fall and the attempts on Jake's life seem to multiply as he gets closer and closer to what he prays is not the ugly truth. Could he be on the wrong side? Can he save his life by ending the life of the woman he has fallen in love with? And if so, will he be absolved of killing a cop? The stakes are high as Jake has to bet his life in the biggest and most desperate game Vegas has ever witnessed. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Jake Morgan Mysteries |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.38" W x 9.04" (1.08 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Nevada - Locality - Las Vegas, Nevada |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: ?Jake Morgan just can't seem to win. In Drawing Dead, the Las Vegas poker dealer and ex-cop is dealt a hand by his casino boss and forced to play. A beautiful high roller, sick of her husband, takes a prescription of gambling and gamboling in Vegas to cure herself. She finds her medicine -- Morgan. He reluctantly plays hotel gigolo, and ends up in her suite. He's just beginning some of his best "under-the-cover" moves when an assassin enters with a cure-all for the woman by popping two lead pills into her head.Just as Morgan is cleared in her death, another femme fatale falls for him. Laura Bulloch is on the Vice squad. While Morgan appreciates her bar-brawling and martial arts skills, he has a difficult time warming to her S&M fetishes. Then, she gets him caught in the crossfire between two groups of dirty cops out to kill each other, as he tries to help her stay alive. The attempts on his life seem to multiply as he gets closer to what he prays is not the ugly truth. Could he be on the wrong side? When he tries to walk away from Laura, Jake Morgan is placed in the crosshairs of an adversary who will not be denied. |