No Free Ride - P X Duke

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Résumé :
Private Detective Jim Nash occasionally makes his living on the shady side of the street by doing off-the-book work for the Feds. A familiar face shows up in his favorite coffee shop, and he realizes one of those jobs has come back to haunt him. This time, Jim has the paperwork all filled out. Until it's signed, sealed, and delivered, no one is getting a free ride....

Biographie:
Peter Duke's gypsy spirit has taken him to some strange places in the world, but now he's content to limit his adventures to riding a motorcycle and whatever he might encounter when he's on the road. Consequently, he's worked in bike shops doing odd jobs from planning and putting on rides down Mexico way, taking care of computer networking and security, and to picking up and delivering motorcycles from the El Lay basin to Las Vegas, among other things.He's ridden over a lot of North America at one time or another from Canada to Mexico, and from Atlantic to Pacific. By far his favorite ride is up and down the length of the Baja Peninsula, where the people are friendly, the sun always shines and it's warm in the winter.Of everything that he has experienced in his all-too-brief life, Africa is perhaps the greatest enigma. It's a beautiful continent, rich in people, nature and resources, yet poor in all of those areas, too.There are some missing years in there, but he likes to think a little mystery is good for the soul.https://pxduke.com...

Sommaire:
Jim Nash is a private detective who has occasionally made his living on the shady side of the street. In his past, he has done off-the-book work for the Feds. One of those old jobs has returned to haunt him. A women he long thought dead comes back into his life when she shows up at his office unannounced. He's not real happy when he sees for himself the woman isn't dead. Now, Lucky Lucy, as he calls her, is just another Fed looking for a sweet deal. This time, he's got the paperwork all filled out. Until it's signed, sealed, and delivered, he's not going to do the work. Jim's partner, Maddie, isn't happy, either. Neither is Luz. She almost kills the interloper when Lucky Lucy kidnaps Jim in an attempt to force him to go to work. All this before the contract with the Feds has even started. A trip to Bimini, drug and people smugglers in the Keys, and an exploding fastboat all figure in the Nash crew's latest adventure, No Free Ride. Includes the short story, Gone....