Name: Nicotine Kiss

Author: Loren D. Estleman
Year: 2006
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Mystery

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ISBNs:
9780765312235
0765312239
From the publisher (source: The Internet Book List):
Sometimes friendship is the only thing you can count on. Just before Thanksgiving, an old friend, cigarette smuggler Jeff Starzek, saved private detective Amos Walker's life by getting him to the hospital when he was shot. After New Year's, Walker gets a frantic call from Starzek's sister. Jeff's missing, hasn't been in touch for weeks. It's just not like him.

Now Walker, still gimpy and rehabbing, is trying to find Starzek. All he has to go on is his knowledge of Starzek's territory - the Lake Huron shore north of Detroit - and a tip from Homeland Security agent Herbert Clemson. Clemson, who is also looking for Starzek, says the missing man might be connected to counterfeiters with ties to terrorists.

Walker can't really see Starzek getting involved in a scheme so different from his usual line of work. When he visits the man's brother, a minister of an evangelical church, Walker finds a huge stack of treasury paper perfect for printing $20 bills - but Starzek's brother is also missing. The counterfeiters are damn serious - serious enough to disappear the reverend brother, serious enough to try to kill Walker when he pokes around their operation. Hell of a way to protect an investment.

But Walker, limping, in pain, cold and tired, can't give up on Starzek. It's a matter of friendship, and he won't let down a friend. He just hopes his loyalty doesn't get him killed.


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"Retro"
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"Sinister Heights"
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"A Smile on the Face of the Tiger"
First published in 2000
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"The Hours of the Virgin"
First published in 1999
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"The Witchfinder"
First published in 1998
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"Never Street"
First published in 1997
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"Silent Thunder"
First published in 1989
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"General Murders"
First published in 1988
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"Lady Yesterday"
First published in 1987
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"Every Brilliant Eye"
First published in 1986
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"Sugartown"
First published in 1984
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"The Glass Highway"
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"The Midnight Man"
First published in 1982
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"Motor City Blue"
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"Angel Eyes"
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"American Detective"
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"Burning Midnight"
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