Short Money

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Desperate for cash, addicted to prescription drugs, and mourning his failed marriage, ex-cop Joe Crow takes a security job that could cost him his life in this hilariously thrilling mystery by Pete Hautman.A depressed ex-cop with a dead-end job, a faltering marriage, a rotten stomach, and an increasingly expensive drug habit, Joe Crow is just looking for a drink and poker game on the night he steps into Birdy . Instead, he comes face to face with the man who might either save his life or absolutely destroy it.Crow first notices Dr. Nelson Bellwether when a chair is smashed over his head. A surgeon with a big mouth, a gambler personality, and some serious debt to the IRS, Bellwether is on his way to deep trouble.Bringing him along for the ride when he hires him as a body guard, Crow finds himself in the midst of trophy elk murder, a dual kidnapping, and a six-hundred-pound tiger, making the small town cop wish he had a bodyguard of his own.

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