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The singer's gun

Mandel, Emily St. John, 1979-2015
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Everyone Anton Waker grew up with is corrupt. His parents deal in stolen goods and his first career is a partnership venture with his cousin Aria selling forged passports and social security cards to illegal aliens. Anton longs for a less questionable way of living in the world and by his late twenties has reinvented himself as a successful middle manager. Then a routine security check suggests that things are not quite what they appear. And Aria begins blackmailing him to do one last job for her. But the seemingly simple job proves to have profound and unexpected repercussions. As Anton's carefully constructed life begins to disintegrate around him, he's forced to choose between loyalty to his family and his desires for a different kind of life. When everyone is willing to use someone else to escape the past, it is up to Anton, on the island of Ischia, to face the ghosts that travel close behind him.
Main title:
The singer's gun / Emily St. John Mandel.
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2015.©2015
Collation:
255 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
First published: [United States of America] : Unbridled Books, 2010.
ISBN:
9781447280057 (paperback)1447280059 (paperback)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
BRN:
450053
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