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The Hook and The Trap
Paperback
Series: The High Velocity Crime
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 19 2025
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Hook and Trap is a bullet-paced noir thriller written in the hardboiled spirit of James Hadley Chase, Raymond Chandler, and Mickey Spillane. It's a story about survival in a world where loyalty costs blood and luck always runs out too soon.
Frankie isn't a hero. He's not even a good man. He's just a survivor - a gambler who's learned that the only thing worse than losing is playing safe. Every choice he makes drags him deeper into a city that eats the weak and rewards the damned.
This isn't a story about crime. It's a story about consequence.
About how a man runs from his past until it catches up - and how even when he wins, he still loses.
From the neon-stained docks to the cigarette-lit bars, Hook and Trap paints a world soaked in rain, whiskey, and betrayal. Every scene bleeds tension. Every word cuts close. Every shadow hides a knife.
It's the kind of book Chase himself might have written if he'd lived to see the age of burner phones and cold hearts. Fast. Brutal. Beautiful.
A tale where no one gets clean - and the city always gets paid.Also from
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