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As the sole rollerblading courier at a San Francisco delivery service, Chet Griffin is the fastest messenger in town. Every day, he delivers critically confidential packages, but when he hands over an already-opened envelope containing a floppy disk with billion-dollar information, a deadly serious customer demands satisfaction.
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Classical in form, relentless, resolved and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Joe Quirk
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 367
- Publisher
- Rob Weisbach Books, St. Martin's Press
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780688152703
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