Hard Man
by:
Allan Guthrie (author)
Pearce, an ex-con and Edinburgh hard man who’s still recovering from the recent loss of his mother, is invited by the dysfunctional Baxter family to protect their pregnant sixteen-year-old daughter from her martial-arts-expert husband, Wallacea man ten years her senior with a penchant for...
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Pearce, an ex-con and Edinburgh hard man who’s still recovering from the recent loss of his mother, is invited by the dysfunctional Baxter family to protect their pregnant sixteen-year-old daughter from her martial-arts-expert husband, Wallacea man ten years her senior with a penchant for killing family pets. Having found out that the baby’s not his, Wallace has sworn vengeance. Pearce declines the job: He’s no babysitter. But when Wallace kills Pearce’s dog, he goes too far. Now it’s personal.Revenge is part of the grieving process. But has Pearce finally met his match?Time to find out how many psychedelic drugs one man can take.Time to find out why Jesus is living in a cage in Wallace’s basement.Time to find out who the real hard man is.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780151012985 (0151012989)
Publish date: June 4th 2007
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
This book just cannot be taken seriously. It is meant to be a comedy of continuous violence, isn't it?When the sixteen year old wife of an extremely violent man, Wallace, falls pregnant by another man, he vows vengeance on the girl, her unborn child, her lover, and anyone else who gets in the way. T...