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After two knee injuries, ex-Hollywood stuntman Nathan Goodman is reduced to faking insurance scams in icy Buffalo, NY. When he picks the wrong target, he is swept up into a plot to kill an innocent child. Will he carry out this vendetta — or save a life at the risk of his own?
At one time, Nathan Goodman was earning more than $200,000 a year as a Hollywood stuntman. Producers wanted his input and Matt Damon knew him on sight. Then a knee injury left him uninsurable and unemployable and he retreated to his hometown of Buffalo, where he fakes accidents to earn cash for painkillers and rent in a run-down house on a lousy street.
When he mistakenly targets an armed man named Remo, he wakes up tied to a chair, and what Remo wants him to do makes him sick. But Nathan isn’t being given a choice. It’s kill or be killed unless he can think of a way out, using everything he ever learned in Hollywood — and then some.
Howard Shrier is a two-time winner of the Arthur Ellis Award, Canada’s highest prize for crime fiction. The author of the acclaimed Jonah Geller series and other works, he publishes new stories and helps emerging authors finish their books, all on this site.
