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Wallace Stroby (Author),
Wallace Stroby (Editor)
Long Branch, Asbury Park, Ocean Grove. The Jersey Shore ain’t what it used to be, but ex-state trooper Harry Rane still calls it home. After his wife’s death, Harry got careless, got shot, and he left the force. He’s a changed man, leads a quiet life, except when it comes to helping his friends…
Now an old buddy of Harry’s wants a big favor. That sounds like a for the green-eyed, redheaded complication. The mobster’s married to a gorgeous lady who once fell hard for Harry. And history is about to repeat itself. Trying to help his friend pay off his debt but inexorably drawn to the girl, soon Harry is between a rock and a hard place. His chances of getting up and staying alive look to be about a million to one…. in Wallace Stroby’s brooding, blistering debut The Barbed-Wire Kiss.
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An Ex-Cop, A Mobster, A Beautiful Woman…
Long Branch, Asbury Park, Ocean Grove. The Jersey Shore ain’t what it used to be, but ex-state trooper Harry Rane still calls it home. After his wife’s death, Harry got careless, got shot, and he left the force. He’s a changed man, leads a quiet life, except when it comes to helping his friends…
Some Triangles Were Made To Be Broken…
Now an old buddy of Harry’s wants a big favor. That sounds like a for the green-eyed, redheaded complication. The mobster’s married to a gorgeous lady who once fell hard for Harry. And history is about to repeat itself. By A Bullet.
Trying to help his friend pay off his debt but inexorably drawn to the girl, soon Harry is between a rock and a hard place. His chances of getting up and staying alive look to be about a million to one…. Wallace Stroby writes descriptive prose as shiny and sharp as a surgical instrument.
-Chicago Tribune Original and ‘s dazzling debut manages to wake us up like the slap of a wave on the New Jersey shore.
-Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Author Biography
Wallace Stroby is an editor for the New Jersey Star Ledger and lives in New Jersey. The Barbed-Wire Kiss is his first novel.
Number of Pages: 352Dimensions: 0.78 x 8.5 x 5.5 INPublication Date: February 25, 2003
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