Bloodlust

Bloodlust

Author: Sandra Brown Listening Length: 12h 29m
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Two years ago, Detective Mitch Haskell lost his wife to a vicious act of retribution, and has since attributed her murder to two men: Roland Malone and the unidentified mastermind of the crime known only as Oz. Malone, a ruthless executioner and drug dealer who fronts as a restaurant owner, neutralizes so cleanly that ...

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Mitch and Roland Malone had stood eye to eye, nose to nose, toe to toe. Mitch in holey, filthy sneakers now freshly spattered with lasagna, and Malone wearing polished Italian leather loafers. Malone had had no idea he had been face-to-face with an enemy who was dead set on a reckoning.

When Mitch reached the end of the alley, he separated himself from the others and turned down a side street where the traffic was much lighter than on Esplanade. He avoided eye contact with what few pedestrians there were, and, fearing panhandling, all gave him a wide berth.

He walked the now familiar circuitous course that he’d mapped out for himself over the past six months.

It wove through the darkest back streets and sinister-looking alleyways to the rear parking lot of a thrift store, which, according to the sign in the window, had gone out of business three years earlier.