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One good deed

Baldacci, David
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It's 1949. When war veteran Aloysius Archer is released from Carderock Prison he is sent to Poca City on parole with a short list of do's and a much longer list of don'ts: do report regularly to his parole officer don't go to bars certainly don't drink alcohol do get a job -- and don't ever associate with loose women. The small town quickly proves more complicated and dangerous than Archer's years serving in the war or his time in jail. Within a single night his search for gainful employment -- and a stiff drink -- leads him to a local bar where he is hired for what seems like a simple job: to collect a debt owed to a powerful local businessman Hank Pittleman. Soon Archer discovers that recovering the debt won't be so easy. The indebted man has a furious grudge against Hank and refuses to pay; Hank's clever mistress has her own designs on Archer; and both Hank and Archer's stern parole officer Miss Crabtree are keeping a sharp eye on him. When a murder takes place right under Archer's nose police suspicions rise against the ex-convict and Archer realizes that the crime could send him right back to prison... if he doesn't use every skill in his arsenal to track down the real killer.
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