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SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY No 506 It was Johnny Cade's last night in Wandsworth Gaol. It was a night of screaming, tortuous agony. For it was the night they worked him over - three of the most vicious tearaways in Wandsworth, big, brutish, sadistic and professional. They were the hired thugs of the Big Fellow and their job was to make Cade talk, to make him tell where he'd hidden the loot... those fifty thousand pounds he'd dreamt of for four wasted years... But Johnny Cade didn't, wouldn't tell. For though they beat him to within an inch of his life, Cade knew they could not afford to kill him. So it was on Bank Holiday Monday, after three painful weeks spent in the prison hospital, that Johnny Cade walked out into freedom - and carried heart-lurching terror into the life of Julie Venner, the beautiful, dark-haired Brighton girl who'd been his partner in crime those four long years ago! Though Johnny Cade didn't want to kill, it seemed inevitable that he must. The pressure seemed overwhelming. And he did. He killed and killed - and killed again. But always the reluctant gunman. Three people died violent deaths in Brighton during that August weekend, before Cade achieved his objective. And through the holiday crowds of Britain's popular seaside resort, Sexton Blake and Paula Dane dogged the reluctant gunman's footsteps... Tension mounts page by page in this gripping mystery-thriller!
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RELUCTANT GUNMAN by W. Howard Baker
