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Cover art: Tony Greco
Blurb: “Donald Westlake has been called "one of the smoothest, most engaging writers on the planet" (San Diego Tribune). Now the author of classic crime novels and such screenplays as The Grifters and The Stepfather has written a disturbing, enthralling tale of a good man gone over a bad edge...
THE AX
Burke Devore doesn't need a handout, a lecture, or a doting wife. Devore, a decent suburban fellow with twenty-five years of loyal service as a paper mill manager, needs only one thing: work. Soon, with desperation pounding in his soul, Burke Devore will take control of a life that has spun out of control.
Burke Devore will go gunning for a job...”