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According to the copyright page, and elsewhere I have checked on Amazon the real author is Jerry Kennealy also an unknown name to me although he has authored quite a few books, (especially of the "Nick Polo, private investigator series). This is a well-written thriller about an ex-SF policeman taking on a job to help a bookie who has been robbed by Oriental hoodlums in his home and his girl friend beaten. It is a good read and few should be disappointed with it. It has a substantial involvement with a Chinatown boss and political manipulations to oust incumbent mayor and replace him with a Chinese candidate. Good, interesting read paperback original.

The biggest drawback to this book is that "the Tomb," the hero, is merely an observer to much of what goes on. A whirl of things around him but the author seems overly careful not to have him do anything, shady or otherwise -- except for the breaking in to Chin's casino counting room.

There were also some real gloss overs. The murder in Vegas, and the juicy threat to Tomb the Vegas cop set up was never delivered. He smoothed it over. Pleeeese. The romance angle seemed abit forced, though this was suppose to show how he was a stand-up guy, interested in the female cop (just as wounded as he) and not the beautiful whores that seem to offer themselves up to him. All in all Tomb was a victim, and not very interesting.

Also, there is no such thing as a Chevrolet Saturn to my understanding, Saturn makes there own vehicles, and seeing that on the first page of the first chapter was a real turn off. ...