Eine Geschichte, die sich jederzeit in Bonn ereignen könnte! Lingen ist ein Profikiller, er ist der 'Mann ohne Gesicht'. Im Auftrag einer dubiosen Organisation, die mit Kokain und Waffenschiebereien befaßt ist, soll er 'gewisse Amtspersonen' beseitigen. Lingen weiß, daß er nach Erledigung seines Auftrags selbst auf der Abschußliste stehen wird.
Would you be wary if someone gave you the assignment of delivering five million dollars to a Philippine terrorist—never mind from whom or why? Booth Stallings, a terrorism expert just fired from his job at a bashful organization that never admitted its mount in the Washington merry-go-round, is wary. So wary that he cuts in con man "Otherguy" Overby, who in turn involves Artie Wu, pretender to the throne of China, and his partner, Quincy Durant. Obviously, good patriots don't want to hand over all that money to bad guys. Better they keep it for themselves. Which inevitably raises the question: Who among them will end up with the money?
Лос-Анджелес, 1950 год. Время красной угрозы коммунизма и кровавых серийных убийств. Время охоты на ведьм в Голливуде: большое жюри расследует подрывную деятельность леваков. Время, когда каждый ловит свой шанс. Помощник шерифа Дэнни Апшо -шанс раскрыть чудовищные преступления и удовлетворить собственное болезненное любопытство. Следователь прокуратуры Мал Кон-сидайн — шанс сделать карьеру и стать опекуном своего приемного сына, которого он спас от ужасов послевоенной Европы. Авантюрист Базз Микс — шанс разбогатеть на борьбе с коммунизмом. Но билет в Город Греха можно купить только в один конец.
Martin Michael Plunkett is a product of his times -- the possessor of a genius intellect, a pitiless soul of brushed steel, and a heart of blackest evil. With criminal tendencies forged in the fires of L.A.'s Charles Manson hysteria, he comes to the bay city of San Francisco -- and submits to savage and terrible impulses that reveal to him his true vocation as a pure and perfect murderer. And so begins his decade of discovery and terror, as he cuts a bloody swath across the full length of a land, ingeniously exploiting and feeding upon a society's obsessions. As he maneuvers deftly through a seamy world of drugs, flesh, and perversions, the media will call him many things -- but Martin Plunkett's real name is Death. His brilliant, twisted mind is a horriying place to explore. His madness reflects a nation's own. The killer is on the road. And there's nowhere in America to hide.
From the highly acclaimed author of Fat Tuesday and The Junkyard Dog comes a steamy, enthralling mystery set in Los Angeles and New Orleans in which a tough, no-nonsense private eye uncovers a murderous scam.
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