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    When the Devil Comes To Call
    When the Devil Comes To Call
    When the Devil Comes To Call
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    When the Devil Comes To Call

    By Eric Beetner

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    Two years after they escaped the mainland with their lives and little else, save for well over a million dollars in the bank, Lars and Shaine have carved out a nicely spartan existence in Hawaii. Two years without pulling a trigger on another human being. Until Lars’s former employer calls about a job.

    What follows is a coming of age forged in fire and a deepening bond built on the edge of life and death. Forced to confront the past and wonder about the future, Lars and Shaine are about to see what kind of team they make.

    Praise for the Lars and Shaine crime novels:

    “The Devil Doesn’t Want Me is a runaway train of violence and mayhem, packed full with a collection of one-of-a-kind characters all speeding toward an explosive and inevitable end. Beetner is a maestro with his action scenes, filling the novel with cinematic set pieces, but the real heart of his story is Lars, an aging hit man forced to confront his own morality as the world goes to hell around him. A great read.” —Owen Laukkanen, author of The Professionals and Criminal Element

    “Eric Beetner is quickly becoming one of my favorite new crime writers, and The Devil Doesn’t Want Me is a perfect example of why. If you’re a fan of fast paced, well-written hard-boiled crime fiction, you’re going to love this book. Beetner is the real deal, and I can only hope this is just the start of what we can expect from him in the future.” —John Rector, author of The Cold Kiss and Already Gone

    “Told with heart, humor, and sizzling cinematic prose, Eric Beetner’s The Devil Doesn’t Want Me is crime fiction at its most entertaining and marks the arrival of a bold new talent.” —Peter Farris, author of Last Call for the Living

    “This book is like if you took Lawrence Block’s famous hitman, Keller, and made him the lovechild of Elmore Leonard and Quentin Tarantino.” —Criminal Element

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDown & Out Books
    Release dateFeb 12, 2018
    ISBN9781370052738
    When the Devil Comes To Call
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    Eric Beetner

    Eric Beetner is the author of more than 30 works of crime and thriller fiction. He's received an ITW award nomination, as well as nominations for a Shamus, a Derringer and three Anthony awards. Ken Bruen called him, "The new maestro of Noir." and LitReactor said he was "the 21st century's answer to Jim Thompson." He works as a TV editor and producer and has earned 7 Emmy nominations.

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