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The Caldera's Vice: The Caldera's Vice Trilogy, #1
The Caldera's Vice: The Caldera's Vice Trilogy, #1
The Caldera's Vice: The Caldera's Vice Trilogy, #1
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"We don't hand out vices. We hand out an escape from pain."
-Silas MaCallister, drug kingpin 

In Hellhole, the sordid city situated into the volcanic basin of the Moloch Caldera, drug bootlegging reigns supreme. A red demon, Asher Glassberg, witnesses the murder of his parents in a gruesome in-home shooting, He finds himself caught up in Hellhole's seedy drug underbelly seeking retribution for his parent's murder. More drug related murders soon follow in Hellhole and black demon Milton Romero, a freshly hired drug mule, stumbles across a deadly strain. The witty Tengu detective, Renshu Karasu, looks into the murders with his keen eye for detail and hunger for solving puzzles. Will this new drug strain bring Hellhole to its knees? Find out in this gritty art deco Prohibition era noir of the demonic kind.

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Release dateAug 3, 2021
ISBN9798201482169
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