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1981 Edgar Award for Best Novel (nominee)
1981 John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger (shortlist)
Creasy thought he had nothing left to lose. He was wrong.
An American soldier of fortune far from home - alcoholic, burnt out, and broken down - Creasy has accepted a job as a bodyguard just for something to do. An emotionally dead, one-time warrior, he knows that nothing can pierce the hard shell he's built around himself - until the little girl he's been hired to protect somehow breaks through. But having something to care about again in making Creasy vulnerable. And when the unthinkable occurs, a man on fire won't just burn ... he'll explode.
Genre: Thriller
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