{"id":16946,"date":"2016-12-19T18:00:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T22:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=16946"},"modified":"2020-07-23T19:49:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T23:49:13","slug":"the-devil-doesnt-want-me-by-eric-beetner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=16946","title":{"rendered":"The Devil Doesn’t Want Me by Eric Beetner"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Devil Doesn’t Want Me<\/strong><\/a> (A Lars and Shaine Novel Book 1) by Eric Beetner<\/p>\n

Paperback: 280 pages
\nPublisher: 280 Steps<\/p>\n

First sentence…<\/p>\n

Seventeen years is a long damn time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Overview:  Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n

The Devil Doesn’t Want Me<\/strong><\/a> is the first in Eric Beetner’s Lars and Shaine series.  Lars is a semi-retired hitman living on the west coast.  His boss, Nikki Senior, is one of the old guard mobsters who finds himself being pushed out by his son, Nikki Junior.<\/p>\n

In an effort to clear the books and show his pop he can run things, Nikki sends a young hitman out to find Mitch the Snitch — a job given to Lars seventeen years prior.  Although Mitch was in government protection and killing him could cause more problems than it would solve, Nikki wants it done.<\/p>\n

Enter Trent.  A cocky young hitman who immediately rubs Lars the wrong way.  Although Lars and Trent are at odds, they know they have to work together to find Mitch the Snitch.  And they do.  Without planning, Trent guns down Mitch and when the Snitch’s sixteen year old daughter stumbles in, Mitch turns to kill her as well.  Lars steps up and saves her and finds himself on the run with a sixteen year old orphan in tow.<\/p>\n

It takes all of Lars’ skills and then some to keep himself and Shaine alive now that Nickki Junior has called out a team to kill them both.  And of course Trent killing a government protected witness has the feds on their trail as well.<\/p>\n

Eric Beetner has never disappointed me.  I really liked  The Devil Doesn’t Want Me<\/a> <\/strong>and have the sequel, When the Devil Comes to Call<\/strong><\/a> waiting in my to be read pile.<\/p>\n

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