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AWAKE AND DIEPeters returned from Korea with shrapnel in his head. The doctor said they can't get it all out, that he'd get better in time. But Peters is itching to get back to his Jersey river, back to his active life. Which is how he hooks up with Mae. That was a year ago. Now Peters is so sick of Mae, he can't stand it. So when he meets Claire, he knows it's time for Mae to go. But Mae has other plans, like moving in with Peters. He doesn't mean to kill her. Not really. Mae is drunk as usual, and yelling. And all he can think about is Claire. All of a sudden he finds his fingers around her neck... there is a splash, and Mae is gone. Now Peters has got to figure out a good alibi. Which is how he runs into Chris at the bar. But nothing seems to go right that evening. She knows too much. And now he's got to figure out what to do with Chris...
Burt Wulff, after two years in the army, most of it in Vietnam, had been entitled to something nice for his trouble, so they had made him a narco. A New York City narcotics cop, with the freedom and the plainclothes and the graft money... but something had happened to this Wulff overseas: he had gone crazy. He had become a man of integrity. Eventually he tried to bust an informant, and they knew they would have to do something about this wild man...When Wulff saw his fiancée OD'd out on the floor, he thought that he might go mad on the spot but quite strangely he did not. Wulff went straight home and discarded everything except his gun and a spare. They were hardly the equipment he would need but they were a beginning. By mid-summer, he had the beginnings of an operation in his mind. The rest he would have to play by ear. Wulff hit the streets to kill a lot of people. The 11th and 12th books in Malzberg's vigilante series, The Lone Wolf, originally published by Berkley Books in the early 1970s under the name "Mike Barry."
Barney Page is wandering Manhattan from bar to bar in an alcoholic haze. He's even sunk to sleeping in a Bowery flophouse. He used to be one of Broadway's top actors, the toast of the town. But that was before his wife Sheila took an overdose of sleeping medicine and didn't wake up. That was before he strangled his lover, Fern. That was before he found himself on a lower platform on the Grand Central subway, his options run out, his life completely forfeit, on the lam from the police, with only two friends left in the world. But what if he were given a second chance? What if he could live this last year all over again? What if he could change it all for the better...?
"Victor Clyde has got the perfect scam: he checks out the big winners at the racetrack, figures out where they live, then breaks into their homes and robs them of their winnings. Victor knows he's too clever to be caught, but then he accidentally hits one of his victims too hard, and now it's time to leave L.A. and head East. On his way out of town, he meets young Jessie Hewitt, and offers her a ride. Jessie is done rebelling against her father, and has decided to return to the family farm. Victor pours on the charm, and by the time they reach New York, she's fallen in love with him. He figures she makes the perfect cover. What he doesn't figure is that when Jessie finds out that he's a thief, she decides to join him ..."--Provided by publisher.
Some innocent people were going to be badly hurt. But he had to remember that there was no innocence in this trade, that anyone and everything touched by junk became irretrievably rotten and then had to pay the price. If he began to think of checks and balances, levels of thought, then he was beginning only to think like a cop or a bureaucrat again. That was why the enforcers were only another component of the disease; because they refused to accept responsibility and follow it through.To fight vermin you had to be one.Burt Wulff is beyond forgiveness, beyond vengeance. He is the Lone Wolf.
It is a hot, sticky Philadelphia night. And teenager Johnny Broom is ready to score. He's got his gang's rumble set up with the Violets, the perfect cover for his real plans for the evening-opening up the warehouse his brother guards for Comber's boys to clean out. Johnny's got it all figured. What he doesn't figure is that the creepy kid Mike will show up and start taking over the action. He doesn't figure that officer Vallera will be one step ahead of him, ready to bust the heist. He doesn't figure that John Dexter Stephens, whom everyone knows is the only adult friend the kids have, will be tagging along on the bust. Johnny's got the perfect plan, so why does everything start to go so wrong...
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