Shame the Devil: A Novel
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ISBN: 0316695238 / Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, January 2000
A restaurant robbery goes badly wrong in Washington, D.C., leaving a number of employees dead, the gunman's brother killed by police, and a young boy run over by the getaway car, a situation that rapidly worsens as the gunman vows to avenge his brother by killing every person involved in his death
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Shame the Devil is the profoundest kind of crime fiction, a story with a heart-stopping pace and the most evil killers this side of Elmore Leonard - but with an eye on the hereafter and the real cost of violence. As it builds to a showdown worthy of Sam Peckinpah, Shame the Devil explores the very essence of human nature, the beliefs that give lives meaning, and what people do when they see those beliefs broken.
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