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GHOSTS IN THE ASH: A DUKE SAVAGE NOVEL
Duke Savage is fifty-three, an ex-journalist turned analog private investigator operating above a pawnshop in Los Angeles — managing a fentanyl addiction, a 3am tremor, and four unanswered calls to his daughter. When an encrypted message arrives warning that a young woman is running out of time, Duke takes what appears to be a routine missing-person case. He discovers he wasn’t hired to find her. He was selected as an instrument by a client who spent four years engineering the moment — because in a war fought with algorithms and administrative cascades, Duke Savage is the one variable the system cannot quietly resolve.
PROLOGUE: OMAHA 1999
The house was a rental on Fontenelle Boulevard, the kind of property that existed as a neglected rental where weeds choked the lawn and the…
GHOSTS IN THE ASH: A DUKE SAVAGE NOVEL
CHAPTER ONE: THE 3AM DEATH RATTLE Three in the morning in Los Angeles and the whiskey had stopped working. Not failed. Stopped. There's a di…
GHOSTS IN THE ASH: A DUKE SAVAGE NOVEL
Westlake was the part of Los Angeles that used to be something else — a succession of something elses, each one layered over the previous wi…