Summer on the coast of Maine can be an idyllic time. That is, until Wolfe and Baker are hired to find who tried to steal a mouse. What starts out sounding as innocuous as a fireman saving a cat from a tree quickly morphs into something far deadlier.Â
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Johnson Laboratories is involved with genome editing on mice in an attempt to eradicate diseases including cancer. But it seems that somebody else has designs on the technology of altering traits within living organisms. Clay and his colorful group of cohorts must once again pull together to uncover the seething evil that threatens Port Essex and the world in a race against time.
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These stories may not keep you up at night, but I can guarantee you won’t fall asleep reading them. Edgy, noir, often macabre tales, you can never predict how the tale is going to end, but it usually doesn’t end well. Kilgore deploys an incredible range of hard-luck characters: a hitman planning to retire (The Auckland Assignment); a British file clerk (The Madding Tale) who volunteers for a passage to India (don’t read during bug season); a cat-walking Parisienne woman (The Woman in Paris who Walked Her Cat); a down on his luck actor whose time has run out (Twenty-Ten). On second thought, they might keep you up at night.
Many of the stories have been told before but the author has written them so well it doesn’t matter
