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"Enestående!"- Stephen KingFrank Guidry er løbet tør for held.Som loyal fikser for New Orleans’ mafiaboss Carlos Marcello ved Guidry bedre end nogen, at ingen er uundværlige, men nu er turen kommet til ham, for han ved for meget om århundredets forbrydelse: mordet på præsident John F. Kennedy.Få timer efter attentatet på JFK er alle med bånd til Marcello døde, og Guidry har en stærk mistanke om, at han er den næste på listen. Han var nemlig i Dallas i et ærinde for bossen, mindre end to uger før præsidenten blev skudt. Guidry ser ingen anden udvej end at tage benene på nakken og flygte til Las Vegas, hvor en gammel forretningspartner – som hader Marcello af et godt hjerte – måske er den eneste, han nu kan stole på vil hjælpe ham med at gå i skjul.Guidry ved udmærket godt, at den første regel, når man er på flugt, er aldrig at stoppe op, men da han ser en smuk husmor i vejsiden med en skadet bil, to små døtre og en hund på bagsædet, øjner han den perfekte forklædning og en oplagt måde til at dække sine spor fra de håndlangere, som Marcello har sendt efter ham. Guidry udgiver sig for at være forsikringsmand, og han tilbyder Charlotte at hjælpe hende frem til deres fælles destination.For Charlotte er der også meget på spil, og hun er ligeledes på flugt. Væk fra en kvælende og stillestående eksistens som husmor i Oklahoma City, og væk fra en alkoholiseret ægtemand.Og mens de hensynsløse forfølgere nærmer sig bagfra, rykker Guidry og Charlotte tættere sammen i en alliance, som kan koste dem begge livet.En klassisk amerikansk historie: To fremmede mødes og rejser mod vest i håbet om et nyt liv – og finder hinanden undervejs.
Professional wheel man Charles "Shake" Bouchon is too nice a guy for the life he's led and not nice enough for any other. Fresh out of prison, he's supposed to deliver a package to Vegas strip-club owner Dick "the Whale" Moby and pick up a briefcase for Shake's former boss and lover, Alexandra Ilandryan, pakhan of L.A.'s Armenian mob. But when the "package" turns out to be Gina, a wholesome young housewife, Shake decides to set her free?a move as noble as it is boneheaded. Now Shake and Gina are on the run in Panama?looking to unload the briefcase's unusual contents while outmaneuvering two angry crime bosses, a heartbroken ex-linebacker, and a sadistic thug plagued by erectile superfunction. And Shake's learning that Gina is less wholesome and more complicated than he initially imagined.
In the summer of 1986, two tragedies rocked Oklahoma City. Six movie-theater employees were brutally killed in an armed robbery. Then a teenage girl vanished from the annual state fair. Neither crime was ever solved.Twenty-five years later, the reverberations of those unsolved cases continue to echo through the lives of those devastated by the crimes. Wyatt, the one teenage employee who inexplicably survived the movie-theater massacre, is now a private investigator in Las Vegas. A case unexpectedly brings him back to a hometown and a past he's tried to escape?and drags him deeper into the harrowing mystery of the movie-house robbery that left six of his friends dead.Like Wyatt, Julianna struggles with the past?specifically the day her beautiful older sister, Genevieve, disappeared at the fair. When Julianna discovers that one of the original suspects has resurfaced, she'll stop at nothing to find answers.As Wyatt's case becomes more complicated and dangerous, and Julianna seeks answers from a ghost, their obsessive quests not only stir memories of youth and first love, but also begin to illuminate dark secrets of the past. Even if they find the truth, will it help them understand what happened and why they were left behind that long and faraway gone summer? Will it set them free?or ultimately destroy them?
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