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The Right Wrong Number: An Ed Earl Burch Novel: Ed Earl Burch Hard-Boiled Texas Crime Thriller, #2
The Right Wrong Number: An Ed Earl Burch Novel: Ed Earl Burch Hard-Boiled Texas Crime Thriller, #2
The Right Wrong Number: An Ed Earl Burch Novel: Ed Earl Burch Hard-Boiled Texas Crime Thriller, #2
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The Right Wrong Number: An Ed Earl Burch Novel: Ed Earl Burch Hard-Boiled Texas Crime Thriller, #2

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When the phone rings long after midnight, it spells trouble of the lethal kind for Dallas private eye Ed Earl Burch in a gritty and relentless hard-boiled thriller that races from the gleaming towers of Houston to the stark desert mountains of the Texas Big Bend country and northern Mexico.

 

Burch is a cashiered homicide detective with bad knees, a wounded liver and an empty bank account. He's been hired to protect an old flame after the disappearance of her husband, a high-flying Houston financier who ripped off his clients, including some deeply unsavory gentlemen from New Orleans.

 

It's a simple job that goes wrong fast, plunging Burch into a ruthless contest where nothing and nobody can be trusted. Money and sex tempt him to break his own rules—twin temptations served up by the old flame, a rangy strawberry blonde with a violent temper and a terminal knack for larceny and betrayal.

 

When his best friend gets murdered by hired muscle in Dallas, Burch blames himself and grimly sets out for vengeance.

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Release dateSep 1, 2023
ISBN9780998329413
The Right Wrong Number: An Ed Earl Burch Novel: Ed Earl Burch Hard-Boiled Texas Crime Thriller, #2

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    Ed Earl Burch is back. Having sorted out his legal SNAFU following the Carla Sue/Bonafacio debacle, Burch is bogged down in debt, bland casework, and hot sex with unreliable women. He spends his spare time drinking whisky in the local dive bar, doing the “shouda, coulda, wouda” karaoke with the other bar flies, hoping for more, but accepting less. His unhappy equilibrium is shattered when former lover and scam artist Mrs Savannah Crowe, lures him into a dangerous job with promises of a big cash payout. Her husband has been murdered. At least it looks that way. And every shady business partner he shafted along the way is chasing Mrs Crowe for their cash. Will Burch solve the case without being arrested or killed? Will he manage to get the girl this time? And more importantly, will he get paid.A great example of a modern, hard-boiled detective story “Right Wrong Number” will appeal to lovers of the genre and Ed Earl fans alike. The book is replete with punchy dialogue, seedy characters, gratuitous sex and violence and all the good stuff we love to read. Another wonderful offering from Jim Nesbitt, author of “The Last Second Chance”.

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