Stoneface an Allen Cage Novel - Hardcover

Jones, Edward R.

9781556113116: Stoneface an Allen Cage Novel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1556113110 ISBN 13: 9781556113116

Publisher: Donald I. Fine, Inc., New York, 1991

Ex-convict and security consultant Allen Cage is hired by business partners Ben Hollister and John Malone to protect them from a former schoolmate, Freeman "Stoneface" McKee, a bully with a habit of terrorizing his old "friends"

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From Publishers Weekly:

What if the high school bully--a figure whose attitude and actions are the stuff of the average person's worst nightmares--suddenly showed up on your doorstep after you'd become rich and successful? That's the problem California business partners Ben Hollister and John Malone face with Freeman "Stoneface" McKee. McKee's brutality during his Texas youth pales next to his current behavior: in one unforgettable scene, he casually shoots an innocent bystander in order to more easily observe security expert Allen Cage, hired by Hollister and Malone to send McKee packing. McKee,in turn, has been hired by a mysterious employer to wrangle some information from his old chums. When Malone is murdered and McKee kidnaps Cage's lover, Caprita Arciaga, a bloody confrontation between Cage and McKee is assured. Cage is apparently loosely based upon the author himself, an ex-convict who in Hacksaw chronicled his ability to escape custody. This fast-paced story ends with an out-of-left-field finale that will startle readers and leave them wondering just what they put in the water in that old Texas high school.
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From Kirkus Reviews:

Jailbreak artist/security consultant Allen Cage's first hardcover case pits him against Freeman McKee, christened ``Stoneface'' by two kids, Ben Hollister and John Malone, whom he terrorized in a Houston grade school. Now grown, fled to L.A., and making big bucks from a revolutionary computer-chip coating that Ben's formulated, the two find him in their high-rise one night and hire Cage to keep a rendezvous he's demanded. Stoneface doesn't take kindly to the interloper, and the upshot is a major diversion from Cage's arguments with live-in Caprita Arciaga over having children, as she spends half the story tied to a bed in the Eros Motel, and he's forced to round up Ben, John, and the formula for that coating. Trouble is, John's dead, Stoneface has an alibi, and the formula's already been published in Business Week.... Guaranteed to elevate your blood pressure--and make you glad you're only one of Jones's readers and not a member of his cast. -- Copyright �1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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