Hired to retrieve an eighteen-year-old runaway, Montreal private eye Lee Harms discovers that his efforts to do so have caused a vicious organized crime gang to put a price on his and his family's heads.
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From Publishers Weekly
Montreal PI Lee Harms burns incense, chants Tibetan mantras and consults his astrologer girlfriend Celeste, whose trade makes about as much sense to the uninitiated as an account of a cricket match does to the average American. Underneath the New Age trappings, however, the divorced ex-cop is plenty hard-boiled, using fists, guns and sheer wit to escape the many tight spots here. The story begins as surgeon William Reynolds appeals to Harms to find his wayward 18-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, who has disappeared once again. To avoid a scandal that might damage his planned entree into politics, Reynolds has already paid $50,000 to suppress a videotape of Elizabeth making love to another woman. Now a second demand has come--for $250,000. Harms accepts the doctor's offer of $10,000 in cash to find Elizabeth and deliver her to a London rehab clinic, but the trail winds through murder, torture, prostitution, drug-dealing, pornography, even the kidnapping of Harms's young daughter. The pseudonymous author, described as a "practicing astrologist," has published other novels under the alias Alan Marks ( Commando Attack ).
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
Montreal shamus Lee Harms, a Seventies kind of guy--he chants; consults an astrologer/former lover for tips on client motivation, etc.--agrees to find wayward Elizabeth Reynolds for her wealthy dad and see her off to a detox clinic before she appears in any more porn videos and wrecks pop's political ambitions. But before Harms can get her out of drug merchant Rico's house, Rico is, somehow, murdered, and a hefty quantity of coke disappears. Rico's family, incensed, stalks Harms; ignites his cop chum Truman; kills Elizabeth's former boyfriend; and, with pulp-fiction zeal, brutalizes everyone in their way. Elizabeth, meanwhile, has fled. Her dad, beset by a blackmailer and a snuff film showing the end of the line for Liz, kills himself (or was he killed?). And Harms tracks Elizabeth down through the naughty ladies working upstairs at Lingerie Unlimited. More goons will die, and Harms's own daughter will be kidnapped, before a psychiatrist offers an explanation for many of Elizabeth's problems--and Harms opts for a little therapeutic chanting. Cornball, but not without energy, superior punch-'em-out sequences--and unintentional humor. The pseudonymous Foxx also writes as Alan Marks. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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