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    A Star File
    A Star File
    A Star File
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    A Star File

    By William Buckel

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    Jackie Star returns as the hard hitting detective in this her third adventure. She is inadvertently drawn into a web of murder, mystery, and intrigue when she stops to aid a woman stranded in the desert at night. In the stranger's broken down car is a man dying of a gunshot wound. He whispers three numbers and a word in Jackie's ear then passes away. Jackie is hunted, kidnapped, and tortured for a secret she knows nothing about. Dare she give them the three numbers? Jackie escapes her captors and searches for answers to the stranger's code. At stake is her life and the lives of her family.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilliam Buckel
    Release dateApr 28, 2012
    ISBN9781476406893
    A Star File
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    William Buckel

    I, William Buckel, am a writer of Fiction and Fantasy. I'm an ongoing student of history having written several historical novels. I live with my dog, north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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