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Paul Benjamin was an ordinary New Yorker until a gang of drug addicts killed his wife and raped his daughter. When the police proved helpless, Benjamin bought a gun and sought vengeance, methodically tracking down the addicts and killing them.
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Grave, classical in form, bleak and spare.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- sparerichly built
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Brian Garfield
- First published
- 1975
- Pages
- 209
- Publisher
- Bantam, M. Evans, Macmillan
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781419675003
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Brian Francis Wynne Garfield is an American novelist and screenwriter. He wrote his first published book at the age of eighteen and wrote several novels under such pen names as "Frank Wynne" and "'Brian Wynne" before gaining prominence when his book Hopscotch (1975) won the 1976 Edgar Award for Best Novel. - Wikipedia
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