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Stephen King called Marlowe “the hardest of the hard-boiled,” and these two novels are his masterpieces. Here are the two books that introduce Earl Drake, a hardened thief on a mission of vengeance. He's been shot, burned and put away in an asylum—but they can't keep him there. Drake is a force to be reckoned with. Barry Gifford said it best: “Nobody wrote tougher prose than Dan J. Marlowe. Nobody.”
The story follows a sociopath who robs banks for a living. After the checks stop coming in from his partner, Bunny, he travels to Florida to find what has happened to his fellow bank robber.