Dark Neon & Dirt
ISBN: 978-19-569-5779-2
Format: 13.3x20.3cm
Liczba stron: 320
Oprawa: Miękka
Wydanie: 2025 r.
Język: angielski
Dostępność: dostępny
<p class="ql-align-justify"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(68, 68, 68, 1)">Shaun Nguyen is a Vietnamese war orphan who made it to America. But danger was never far behind - from the Chinatown gangs he ran with in New York, to his years in Iraq dodging bullets and defusing bombs. Nguyen learnt how to survive. By all means necessary.</span></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(68, 68, 68, 1)">Now he's a high-end thief in Los Angeles. One of the best, but smart enough to know he's living on borrowed time. Then a job goes sideways, leaving bodies on the Hollywood Freeway, stolen diamonds in his pocket, and a target on his back.</span></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(68, 68, 68, 1)">Which gets the attention of Thomas Monroe, an LAPD lieutenant who's been hunting Nguyen for years. Captain Ahab with a gun and badge, plus his own dirty secrets closing in on him fast. The two of them are set on a collision course - a thief who won't be caught and the cop who doesn't miss.</span></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(68, 68, 68, 1)">Not exactly the quiet life Nguyen is after, especially now he's met a mysterious woman who's landed in town. They fall for each other hard. A gallerist living in France who used to be with the FBI's Art Crime Team. Able to spot forgeries a mile off, but she hasn't figured </span><em style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(68, 68, 68, 1)">him</em><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(68, 68, 68, 1)"> out yet.</span></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(68, 68, 68, 1)">So once he wraps up this business with the diamonds, Nguyen is done with the game. The problem is she's not quite done with the FBI.</span></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(68, 68, 68, 1)">Welcome to the City of Angels - where everyone has an angle.</span></p><p></p>