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Speak of the Devil by Richard Hawke

Speak of the Devil

by Richard Hawke
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  • Jan 10, 2006, 336 pages
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  • Feb 2007, 384 pages
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"Sit back."

"Just so you know," I said, "I'm the good guy here."

"Sit. Back."

I sat back. We crossed to Ninth Avenue and passed a restaurant called Zen Palate. Margo loves that place. There are three of them in the city, the closest one to her being the one on Broadway in the mid-Seventies. She's dragged me there a couple times. I like half the stuff I've tried there with her. The other half tastes like cardboard.

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