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Paul Conklin engages in a deadly war with Lawrence St Germain. In a violent duel St Germain watches as Conklin murders his hapless partner and after a daring prison escape, Conklin will collide with St Germain once more, in a cliffside struggle worthy of "High Sierra".

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A brutal murder with savage rape comes to the snowy heart of Vermont's Green Mountains. Young sheriff's lieutenant Larry St Germain has no doubts, but knowing the enemy and bringing him to justice, prove to be two very different things. By the author of "Floater" and "Little Odessa".