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Eleven years ago, Stone kicked to death the bodyguard of Shooter, the man who had slashed his mother's face. Offending the gangster who runs Hull's underworld is not the way to have a nice time in jail and the disfiguring tattoos on Stone's face were no more his choice than the gang rapes. He wants revenge on Shooter as much as he wants a life that bears some relation to normality. Then he finds Ginny unconscious on the steps of his apartment and takes her in as much to protect himself from the law as for any other reason. She is in Hull from California looking for her best friend, Juliet, who has disappeared, and has been attacked for asking questions. Ginny's quest becomes his, both because he comes to love her, and because he suspects that neither disappearance or assault could have happened without Shooter's being in some way involved. Baker's intense psychological thriller takes us to the inside of Stone's head, and explores a violent man who is trying to change and to cope with more damage than is quite survivable. Its intense plotting, and real sense of evil, has room for passionate romance and some entertaining family comedy. --Roz Kaveney --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The new tattoos on his face - they held him down in the nick and did them for him - make Stone look like a scary individual. People give him a wide berth. But he's trying to rebuild his life, he really is. But the battered Asian girl - she turns out to be Vietnamese - he finds in the doorway of his basement flat drags him straight back to the old world. She's come to Hull - Hull! - from California, looking for her best friend, who has vanished after her letters suddenly stopped. She's beautiful, this Ginny, and Stone is, deep down, kind, so yes, he'll help. But soon, he's right back in among the vicious lowlife of this city of docks and the opportunities they provide. Before long the terrible truth begins to emerge... Highly acclaimed for his York-based Sam Turner series, John Baker strikes out on a different tack with The Chinese Girl - different, but equally brilliant.
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Eleven years ago, Stone kicked to death the bodyguard of Shooter, the man who had slashed his mother's face. Offending the gangster who runs Hull's underworld is not the way to have a nice time in jail and the disfiguring tattoos on Stone's face were no more his choice than the gang rapes. He wants revenge on Shooter as much as he wants a life that bears some relation to normality. Then he finds Ginny unconscious on the steps of his apartment and takes her in as much to protect himself from the law as for any other reason. She is in Hull from California looking for her best friend, Juliet, who has disappeared, and has been attacked for asking questions. Ginny's quest becomes his, both because he comes to love her, and because he suspects that neither disappearance or assault could have happened without Shooter's being in some way involved. Baker's intense psychological thriller takes us to the inside of Stone's head, and explores a violent man who is trying to change and to cope with more damage than is quite survivable. Its intense plotting, and real sense of evil, has room for passionate romance and some entertaining family comedy. --Roz Kaveney --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The new tattoos on his face - they held him down in the nick and did them for him - make Stone look like a scary individual. People give him a wide berth. But he's trying to rebuild his life, he really is. But the battered Asian girl - she turns out to be Vietnamese - he finds in the doorway of his basement flat drags him straight back to the old world. She's come to Hull - Hull! - from California, looking for her best friend, who has vanished after her letters suddenly stopped. She's beautiful, this Ginny, and Stone is, deep down, kind, so yes, he'll help. But soon, he's right back in among the vicious lowlife of this city of docks and the opportunities they provide. Before long the terrible truth begins to emerge... Highly acclaimed for his York-based Sam Turner series, John Baker strikes out on a different tack with The Chinese Girl - different, but equally brilliant.
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