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The Eighth Circle

Name: The Eighth Circle
Rating: 3.67 (242 reviews)
Author: Stanley Ellin

Stanley Ellin

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Murray Kirk runs his private investigation agency like the business it is: he isn’t interested in justice or crusades, just the profit and loss account. When he’s asked to act for a young policeman accused of bribery, because he knows something about police corruption in New York City, he isn’t too keen. He just can’t see the profit – until he meets the man’s fiancee. And then Kirk’s motives become uncomfortably confused, and he finds himself descending swiftly into a grey world of bookmakers, gangsters, grafters and corrupt politicians, a world where setting up an honest cop is all in a day’s work…

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The Eighth Circle

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