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by Wallace Stroby
Crissa Stone is a career criminal. A complete pro, she never works too close to her New York City home, rarely signs on with the same crew, and never rushes a job. These are the rules that have kept her from getting caught, from doing time. They're the rules her mentor and lover taught her, rules he didn’t follow as closely as he should've. Now he’s up for parole, and Crissa needs to come up with some real money real fast to help grease the wheels.
Word is that there’s an illegal card game set for less than a week from now. The take? As much as seven figures. Desperate, Crissa slaps a plan and a crew together.
It's robbery, not murder. But when one of her crew loses his cool and they have to abandon the plan, she catches the attention of Eddie the Saint. A hit man recently released from prison, Eddie is no less of a pro than Crissa, and he could use the work, not to mention all that money.
"The action builds to the inevitable and exciting showdown." - Publishers Weekly
"Barry Award finalist Stroby's (Gone 'til November) latest hard-boiled novel is a compelling blend of greed, violence, and the need to survive that will appeal to noir aficionados." - Library Journal
"Starred Review. Another fast, taut winner from Stroby ... As for Crissa, she may be crime fiction's best bad girl ever." - Kirkus
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Wallace Stroby is an award-winning journalist and a former editor at The Star-Ledger in Newark, New Jersey. This is his fourth novel, following the acclaimed Gone ’til November and the Barry Award finalist The Barbed-Wire Kiss. He lives in New Jersey.
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