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It’s not a task many would want – but

It will thrill readers who love

straight from the heart

whose work includes a dozen of the finest crime novels written in the last 20 years

especially if it falls into the wrong hands

But converting the beloved

Now having graduated from a childhood of petty theft to a career in the pay of the city's most fearsome mobsters

But mankind was not born private

The Lincoln County War: Go inside the bloody feud that transformed a young cowboy into a cold-blooded killer and set the stage for the West's most legendary showdown

to his co-founding of Blackwater following 9/11

They’re from different sides of the tracks

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