Rent The Weight

Synopsis

Sugar is that rarest of commodities: an old-school professional thief, as tough and loyal as a pit bull packing 255 pounds of muscle. When he's picked out of a photo array in a vicious rape case, the cops find his apartment empty. A stakeout catches Sugar when he returns ... carrying a loaded pistol. The sex-crime cops get nothing from their interrogation, but the next wave contains a street-wise old detective who figures out why Sugar has no alibi: At the time of the rape, a holiday weekend breakthrough job was being pulled on a jewelry store. The DA offers two options: Give up his partners in the jewelry heist and walk, or plead to the rape he didn't commit ... and he'll toss in the gun charge. For Sugar, that's not two options: He takes the weight.

When he finishes his time, his money's waiting for him, held by Solly, the mastermind behind the jewelry heist. But Solly tells Sugar that one of the heist crew was actually sent by another planner ... and that planner just died. In Sugar's world, all loose threads must be cut. He suspects that there's more to this job than Solly's telling him. But nothing he suspects or imagines can prepare him for what he finds...

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