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by IanRankin (Author)

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    Paperback 1994

    $3.45

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    Paperback 1995

    $3.45
Synopsis

Michael Kenyon finds he is fronting a gambling club with some shady backers and that the manager is skimming off the top & setting Kenyon up.Kenyon decides he should disappear.Can the Mafia still find him?

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 388
 Edition: First Edition
 Publisher: Orion
Published: 01 Dec 1994
ISBN 10: 1857975251
ISBN 13: 9781857975253
Book Overview: Eric Clarke makes a magnificent return to the thriller genre that made his name Eric Clarke made a special study of the Mafia takeover of British gambling while a journalist on the Observer.

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Author Bio
Born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960, Ian Rankin graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1982, and then spent three years writing novels when he was supposed to be working towards a PhD in Scottish Literature. His first Rebus novel was published in 1987, and the Rebus books are now translated into twenty-two languages and are bestsellers on several continents. Ian Rankin has been elected a Hawthornden Fellow, and is also a past winner of the Chandler-Fulbright Award, as well as receiving two Dagger Awards for the year's best short story and the Gold Dagger for Fiction. He has also been shortlisted for the Edgar and Anthony Awards in the USA, and won Denmark's Palle Rosenkrantz Prize in 2000. Ian Rankin is also the recipient of honorary degrees from the universities of Abertay, St Andrews and Edinburgh. A contributor to BBC2's 'Newsnight Review', he also presented his own TV series, 'Ian Rankin's Evil Thoughts', on Channel 4 in 2002. His most recent novel, A QUESTION OF BLOOD, was a Sunday Times Number One bestseller in both hardback and paperback. He recently received the OBE for services to literature, opting to receive the prize in his home city of Edinburgh, where he lives with his partner and two sons.