Philip Reed
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Bird Dog: A Novel
Philip Reed
Harold Dodge is pushing fifty in a less-than-perfect world—that is, Los Angeles. He’s in a friend’s car when 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 when Marianna Perado in her spike heels 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. Now Harold has to add up a pack of lies and hope a scrap of truth comes out in the equation. But Harold lives in a city where everyone’s working a hustle, where the only question is who’s hustling you. The Santa Ana winds are blowing, and Harold Dodge is feeling the heat.
