Sharkey's Machine - Softcover

William Diehl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0722129807 ISBN 13: 9780722129807

Publisher: Sphere Books, 1979

Synopsis

Thriller - Italy, 1944: A squad of American soldiers on a dangerous secret mission is ambushed and slaughtered... and a fortune in gold vanishes. Hong Kong, 1959: An aging American colonel, haunted by his wartime past, is brutally murdered in a luxurious brothel. Atlanta, 1975: The last survivor of the fatal World War II ambush in Italy is executed at point blank range in a parking lot. Blowing away a crazed, gun-wielding drug dealer on a crowded city bus gets police detective Sharky bounced from the narc squad into the dreaded dregs of the department-vice. That's where he stumbles on a high-priced call girl and her pimp who are fleecing rich johns in an even higher-priced blackmail scam. Together with his "machine" of hard-bitten vice squad veterans, Sharky closes in for a big sting. He doesn't count on falling for Domino, his alluring target. Or falling into the middle of the murderous design she's a part of-involving a hot presidential candidate, the shadowy multimillionaire who's backing him, and the ice-cold assassin they're using to wipe out the past... before it blows their future to hell.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sphere Books
• Publication date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0722129807
• ISBN 13: 9780722129807
• Binding: Paperback