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Blood Of The Powder
Blood Of The Powder
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A violent and bloody web of intrigue and death spanning the North and South poles of two evil mobsters, shading their cocaine dealings with quasi-legitimate business activities. Drawn into this cess, are two teenagers: nineteen-year-old, heavily sexual Laura Sutton who snares seventy-year-old mob billionaire Alfredo ‘Hooch’ Canetti with marriage and wily manipulation, accessing his money to hire freelance soldiers to repel his younger brother Italo’s vengeance when she sexes Hooch to death in a Houston brothel.
The other teenager, seventeen-year-old exquisitely beautiful Tina Burgess, escapes her widowed father’s sexual molestations to hide in the same brothel near Houston, where she becomes embroiled in the preservation of vital evidence against Smith |and Canetti. When the pressure becomes intolerable, she escapes to her deceased mother’s sister in Buenos Aires only to find more deadly intrigue.
This fiery tale eventually burns itself out with a devastating explosion on a yacht used by the Canetti brothers to torture their enemies.
All ends with cops having their robbers, and Jacks having their Jills.

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Release dateFeb 12, 2017
ISBN9781370724215
Blood Of The Powder
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Nicholas Nova-Raine, Sr

In 1966 I became a qualified Music and English Teacher.I taught these subjects, and History, in High Schools - and class music in Primary Schools. I wrote the libretto and composed the music for a children's operetta called 'Pharaohs Mercy' which won me a double merit with the then Transvaal Education Department. I have performed Beethoven, Liszt, Mozart, Brahms, and many other pieces in concerts in Johannesburg with great acclaim. Forty years ago, I entered The Stellenbosch Wineries Short Story Competition with my humorous short story 'THE DRUMMER AND THE COOK', inspired by the cute English folk song by that name; 'My story took second place out of hundreds of entrants, and received acclaim from the critics. I am busy with the follow up to 'BLOOD OF THE POWDER'. Many Thanks. N. Nova-Raine

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