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Jack Wakes Up: A Novel

By: Seth Harwood
Narrated by: Seth Harwood
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Washed-up movie star Jack Palms is knee-deep in a Bay Area drug war and it'll take the performance of a lifetime to get him through it alive.

In the three years since Jack Palms left Hollywood and kicked his drug habit, he's added fourteen pounds of muscle, read 83 books, and played it as straight as anyone could reasonably ask. But the residual checks are drying up, and the ascetic lifestyle's starting to wear thin, so Jack's happy to cash in on his former celebrity by showing some out-of-town high rollers around San Francisco's club scene.

Then people start turning up dead, and Jack realizes he's been playing tour guide to a pack of former KGB agents turned coke dealers. Soon he's got too many gunmen after him to count - including a South American drug cartel, a mountain-sized Samoan enforcer, and a mobbed-up strip-club owner with an army of thugs. That's not to mention the gorgeous bartender who may be planning on shooting him in the back and the homicide cop who's just given Jack 24 hours to bring down the Bay Area's biggest drug dealer.

But the thing that scares Jack the most? He's starting to enjoy himself.

©2009 Three Rivers Press (P)2014 Seth Harwood
Modern Detectives Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction
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Absolutely over the moon to find this story again. And it’s lost nothing since I heard it back in the podiobooks days.

Seth has created a lovable rogue of a character in jack and the rest of the characters are equally detailed and believable.

Love it. Start to finish!

And I am certain it won’t be the last time I listen.

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