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Rent The Identity Man
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Format: Quality Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: Nov 2011
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - General
Retail Price: $14.95
Pages: 320
Synopsis
An Otto Penzler Book John Shannon is a petty thief on the run. A three-time loser framed for murder, he knows that he's facing life in prison—or death by lethal injection. Then, a bizarre text message draws him to a meeting in the dark of night. A foreigner who calls himself the Identity Man offers Shannon an incredible chance to start again: a new face, a new home, a new beginning.
In a ruined city trying to rebuild, he gets work as a carpenter, and falls in love. It seems too good to be true—and it is. It turns out this city is crawling with crooked politicians, gangsters, and dirty cops—all of whom seem to want Shannon dead. Moving through the burnt-out shambles of a town, he's got to ferret out the secret of his new life—and fast—if he wants to be left with any life at all.