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Bird Dog

by Philip Reed

289 pages · 1997

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Harold Dodge is pushing fifty, going gray, and carrying a few extra pounds. He's a good man, always looking to help people out. But in a less-than-perfect world - that is, Los Angeles - good men sometimes have to do bad things. Now Harold's in a friend's car - and in a spot. A pair of hired repo men in a stolen Buick are trying to run him off the freeway and into an early grave. But the cops pull him over first - a blessing, except for one little thing, Harold's got a dead body in the trunk. It all started because Harold has a weakness for killer legs. And in her spike heels, Marianna Perado is the kind of woman who makes guys like Harold leap first and look later. When she asks him to help her "unwind" a rip-off deal at Joe Covo's dealership, where Harold once bird-dogged suckers into buying used cars, he jumps ... and lands in a cesspool of corruption.

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