Nick's Trip

Nick Stefanos has given up his job in sales to tend bar at the Spot, where drinks and women are both a bit too easily available, and the routine is starting to feel as dead-end as his last gig. But things are about to change. First, his high-school friend Billy Goodrich asks him to find his wife April, who he says left him for small-time crime boss Joey DiGeordano. In fact, April has taken off with hog farmer/bondage freak Tommy Crane and, it turns out, with $200,000 of DiGeordano family money. There are powerful enemies on her trail -- and now on Nick's trail, too.

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• The Sweet Forever: A Novel
• The Big Blowdown
• Right As Rain: A Derek Strange Novel (Derek Strange Novels)
• Shame the Devil
• The Cut (Spero Lucas)
• Hell to Pay: A Derek Strange Novel (Derek Strange Novels)
• The Man Who Came Uptown
• What It Was