GUNNER: An Alton Rhode Mystery (Alton Rhode Mysteries)

By Lawrence De Maria

HE WAS PAID $20,000 TO KILL AN OLD MAN. WHY DOES HE NOW SEEK REVENGE? "De Maria's latest mystery proves that patriotism can come in many forms, not all of them pretty. GUNNER delivers a wallop!" (John Crudele, NEW YORK POST) The brutal murder of an elderly Medal of Honor winner from the Vietnam War, staged as a robbery, has unintended consequences. The hired killer, himself a proud veteran of more-recent American wars, feels betrayed by the people who paid him to eliminate a man he now reveres. He wants to settle the score. But there is a problem.The secretive assassin has no way of finding out who ordered the hit. But he knows someone who can. Someone he has trusted with his life in the past. Someone with a reputation for doing the impossible.If you like a twisty mystery replete with sex, murder and political intrigue, GUNNER is your cup of tea. ***"A master of thriller dialogue." (WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS)"While De Maria may have been an award-winning financial reporter, he's an awfully good fiction writer as well." (NAPLES DAILY NEWS)"What is really almost beyond belief is how easily De Maria has transitioned from the dry world of financial reporting to the wild and lavish world of novel writing." (COLLIER CITIZEN)

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1982926066
• ISBN13: 9781982926069
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.6" x 5.1"