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I thought there weren't any good EQ novels left. I was wrong.

This is one of the hard-boiled crime novels from the 1960s written by the reliable Richard Deming. I read it in one sitting.

The plot is a Hitchcock-like story of an average man who gets in over his head. Jim Morgan is a working stiff with a materialistic wife who is slowly spending him into bankruptcy. One day he buys a briefcase and sets it down in the wrong place at the wrong time. A local mobster was going to pay someone off and before Jim knows it, he accidentally has $100,000 in his hands. Should he report the money to the police, or use it to pay off his debts?

What's good about this book is that I kept putting myself in his position, wondering what I would do if I were him. Slowly the noose begins to tighten around him, and his options narrow.

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