Blood Standard

Blood StandardBy: Laird Barron Series: An Isaiah Coleridge Novel Award winning author Laird Barron makes his crime fiction debut with a novel set in the underbelly of upstate New York that's as hardboiled and punchy as a swift right hook to the jaw a classic noir for fans of James Ellroy and John D. Macdonald. Isaiah Coleridge is a mob enforcer in Alaska he's tough, seen a lot, and dished out more. But when he forcibly ends the moneymaking scheme of a made man, he

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