The
Edgar Award-nominated author of GUN MONKEYS delivers an adrenaline
rush of a novel that features a special appearance by Joe
DiMaggio.

The high spot of Teddy Folger's life was the day in 1954 that he
got an autographed baseball card from Joe DiMaggio himself. It's
been downhill ever since. Which is why he just unloaded his
freeloading wife and torched his own comic-book store--in one of
the stupidest insurance scams in history. Enter Conner Samson. The
down-on-his-luck repo man has just been hired to repossess Teddy's
boat. Little does he know there's a baseball card on board that
some men are willing to kill for. Thus begins a rip-roaring
cross-country odyssey--and with bodies piling up, the squeeze is on
for the penultimate piece of Americana. And Conner will be lucky if
he ends up back where he started: broke and (still)
breathing.

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