A Man of Lies

By Ben Crane,

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When his lover is killed by their mob boss, a hardened criminal insider decides to pursue one last elaborate heist in an effort to rid himself of his underground lifestyle for good.

Barrett Rye has always been told he can be only one thing in life: an enforcer. He's a…

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Usually I’m not much for novels set in the criminal underworld, so I opened A Man of Lies with some skepticism.

Then I read the first paragraph: “So here’s the short version of things: I did something stupid, some people got hurt, and I’m about to try something far worse.” Who could stop reading after that? Not me. I zipped through the book, happy to live in the company of this tough, worldly, bluntly frank narrator pursuing a goal motivated, we soon learn, by love.

I also wondered about the background of the author. Nothing in the jacket flap biography…

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