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With a blizzard immobilizing New York City, Ruby Murphy seeks solace for her boyfriend's abandonment in the company of apprentice jockey Attila Johnson, but she soon discovers, after Attila is nearly killed while out running on the beach, that he is a man with a price on his head. By the author of Hex. Original. 12,500 first printing.
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Maggie Estep’s critically praised heroine, Ruby Murphy, is back! Back in Coney Island with a bunch of endearing misfits, back at the racetrack ogling thoroughbreds, and back learning that, on the seamy side of the sport of kings, survival can be a long shot. Ruby’s life is nothing if not complicated: she’s spending a lot of her time worrying about a jockey named Attila Johnson; a good-hearted Teamster with a bad back; a neighbor who is suspicious of anything that moves; one very fat cat who craves raw meat; a missing FBI agent; an underused piano; a few fine horses—and the sure knowledge that somehow, somewhere, there is a killer among them.
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