The Vig: 2 (Dismas Hardy)

Author: Lescroart, John

Brand: Penguin Random House

Color: Multicolor

Edition: Reprint

Binding: mass_market

Format: Deckle Edge

Number Of Pages: 384

Release Date: 01-08-2006

Part Number: 9780451219152

Details: Product Description
Former San Francisco lawyer Dismas Hardy is being hunted by one of the thugs he once put away in this thriller from New York Times bestselling author John Lescroart.Soldier. Cop. Lawyer. Dismas Hardy’s done the tough jobs, and had some tough luck. Now he’s kicking back and tending bar at the Shamrock in San Francisco. But the past returns in the form of Rusty Ingraham—a former fellow prosecutor who drops by for a drink, warning Hardy that a perp they put away nearly ten years ago just got released...and might still be looking for revenge.

Next thing Hardy knows, Ingraham’s houseboat becomes a murder scene, with a dead woman on board and Ingraham, presumably, at the bottom of the bay. To save himself, Hardy’s got to solve the case. But there’s more than one kind of payback, and it’s not just the ex-con who might have wanted it. Now, as he tangles with a mob enforcer, a rejected lover, and a renegade cop, Hardy is haunted by the knowledge that the later you pay, the steeper the price...
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Praise for The Vig

“The plot twists and turns...Hardy is one of the more real and engaging characters in...crime solving.”—
Los Angeles Times“A large cast, swift pacing, and good local color...a gripping yarn.”—
Publishers Weekly
“[Lescroart has a] sensitive touch with psychologically complex characters...a tense, tough, page-turning plot.”—Playboy“Tense, satisfyingly complex.”—Kirkus Reviews
From the Back Cover
Payback is murder.
A beautiful woman paid it with her body. A seedy lawyer used somebody else's money. It's the vig--the exorbitant interest mob loan sharks take on their money. Now, in the city by the Bay, everyone has to pay...
Down-and-out-lawyer Rusty Ingraham left behind a murdered woman and a houseboat splattered with blood. All the evidence said Ingraham was in San Francisco Bay. Dead. But a friend of Ingraham's, former cop and prosecutor Dismas Hardy, isn't so sure. And Hardy has to find out, because a stone-cold killer, now paroled, once threatened to kill Ingraham and Dismas Hardy both.
Now, to save his own skin, Dismas must face down liars and killers on both sides of the law. From mob foot soldiers to brokenhearted lovers to renegade cops, a dozen lives are tied to the fate of Rusty Ingraham--and the payback has only just begun....
About the Author
John Lescroart is the 
New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty-five novels including the Dismas Hardy series. He lives in Northern California.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
At 2:15 on a Wednesday afternoon in late September, Dismas Hardy sat on the customer side of the bar at the Little Shamrock and worked the corners of his dart flights with a very fine emery board.  A pint of Guinness, pulled a quarter of an hour ago, had lost its head and rested untouched in the bar's gutter.  Hardy whistled tonelessly, as happy as he'd been in ten years.

He'd opened the bar at 1:00 p.m. sharp and had served a bottle of Miller Draft to Tommy, a regular who'd retired from schoolteaching some years back and who now spent most afternoons by the large picture window, talking to whoever would listen.  But today Tommy told Hardy he had an appointment and left after one beer.  Tommy was all right, but being left alone didn't break Hardy's heart.

Hardy finished one flight and raised his head.  He took the Guinness and sipped at it.  Through the window over Tommy's table, light traffic passed on Lincoln Blvd.  Across the street, the evergreens and eucalyptus that bordered Golden Gate Park shimmered in a light breeze.  There had been no fog that morning, and Hardy guessed the breeze would still be warm.  If you want summer in San Francisco, plan your vacation for the fall.

A bus pulled up across the street and stopped.  When it pulled away, it left a man standing, lost looking, at the corner.

A minute later, the double doors swung open; Hardy scooped up his flights and swung himse

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