Borderline

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Lawrence Block - Borderline by Michael Koelsch
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Some Borders You Can Never Cross Back…

On the border between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, five lives are about to collide—with fatal results. You’ll meet:
MARTY—the professional gambler who rolls the dice on a night with…
MEG—the bored divorcee who seeks excitement and finds…
LILY—the beautiful hitchhiker lured into a live sex show by…
CASSIE—the redhead with her own private agenda… and
WEAVER—the madman, the killer with a straight razor in his pocket, on the run from the police and determined to go down swinging!

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Blood On The Mink

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Robert Silverberg - Blood On The Mink by Michael Koelsch
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The Money Was Counterfeit — But The Danger Was Real!

Set A Fake To Catch A Fake

Somewhere in Philadelphia, a master engraver is turning out brilliant forgeries of U.S. currency plates for organized crime. To bring the operation down from the inside, the government sends an agent undercover posing as a West Coast crime lord’s right-hand man. It’s a dangerous game of impersonation—one that could prove fatal when the agent’s secret begins to unravel…

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Somebody Owes Me Money

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Donald E Westlake - Somebody Owes Me Money by Michael Koelsch
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Even a New York cabbie can get taken for a ride…

SOMETIMES WINNING FEELS AN AWFUL LOT LIKE LOSING. Cab driver Chet Conway was hoping for a good tip from his latest fare, the sort he could spend. But what he got was a tip on a horse race. Which might have turned out okay, except that when he went to collect his winnings Chet found his bookie lying dead on the living room floor. Chet knows he had nothing to do with it—but just try explaining that to the cops, to the two rival criminal gangs who each think Chet’s working for the other, and to the dead man’s beautiful sister, who has flown in from Las Vegas to avenge her brother’s murder…

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When It’s Time to Say Goodbye… Say It With Bullets

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Bill Wayne took the road trip through the West to find out which of his former army buddies shot him in the back and left him for dead—but the would-be killer isn’t just waiting to be found…

Bill Wayne told his beautiful tour guide that he took the bus trip through the West to relax. But who can relax with dead bodies turning up at every stop? From Cheyenne to Salt Lake City, from Reno to Yosemite, Bill’s secretly on a mission to discover which of his former army buddies shot him and left him for dead four years earlier. But with all the lead that’s flying around, Bill will be lucky to make it to the end of the tour in one piece…

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