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    Monkey in the Middle
    Ebook209 pages5 hours

    Monkey in the Middle

    By Stephen Solomita

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    A mercenary turned hitman. An aging gangster with arthritic knees. A bent cop playing more angles than a Brooklyn pool shark. Which of these men is the hunter? Which the hunted? And who's just the monkey in the middle?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSevern House Publishers
    Release dateNov 1, 2011
    ISBN9781780101927
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    Monkey in the Middle
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    Stephen Solomita

    Stephen Solomita, a former New York taxi driver, is the creator of the popular cop-turned-private-eye Stanley Moodrow, He lives in New York City.

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      Hitman Leonard Carter stabs Anthony Magure while shopping at Macys.Lt. Solly Epstein and Sgt Billy Boyle of the Organized Crime Control Bureau investigate. Solly is in a hurry to resolve the case since his wife is due any day.Maguire worked for Paulie Margarine Marginella as did three other homicide victims. Solly thinks that Moroccan Arab born in U.S. Rachad Toufig is behind the killings in a territorial dispute.Carter met Montgomery Thorpe when they worked as mercenaries in Iraq. Thorpe had been paying twenty thousand dollars per killing but doesn't pay this time.Carter has no way of collecting and realizes that if he complains, Thorpe could just hire another assassin and go after him.Solomita has written a dark novel of greed and betrayal. There are no characters that are particularly likable and the outcome is unsetteling. There are also gaps in the plot where the reader questions how certain events occurred and why characters would take steps that would put them in precarious positions.