The Vig: A Novel (Dismas Hardy) - Hardcover

John T. Lescroart

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1556112211 ISBN 13: 9781556112218

Publisher: Donald I. Fine, Inc., 1990

Synopsis

Ex-cop, part-time investigator, and sometime bartender Dismas Hardy returns to face a death threat as he investigates the bloody disappearance of his friend Rusty Ingraham, an investigation that exposes foot-dragging police, corruption and an enforcer named Johnny LaGuardia

About this title

From the Publisher:

Sooner or later, everyone has to pay...

"One of the best thriller writers to come down the pike."
--USA Today

"An appealing detective...[Lescroart's] San Francisco is replete with convincing details of contemporary life in the Bay Area."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Gripping...a large cast, swift pacing and good local color."
--Publishers Weekly

From the Inside Flap:

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 this edition

• Publisher: Donald I. Fine, Inc.
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 1556112211
• ISBN 13: 9781556112218
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 295