Comeback (Gun Pedersen book 1)
“Stony, population 3415 according to the green sign at the edge of town, stood on the southern bank of Stony Lake. The year-round people lived in modest wood-frame houses, and most of them worked at the Hedman Paper Mill twelve miles to the east. The rest lived off the tourist trade in the summer and collected unemployment checks all winter.
Two miles out of town he stopped at a small tavern nearly hidden by a dense stand of birches. Behind it the lake glittered. A neon sign blinked from a w...indow, bright green: jack be nimble’s. Gun parked in the lot and walked inside. The walls were knotty pine, darkly golden in the weak light.
Behind the gleaming mahogany bar stood a man in a black crew cut. He was short and looked like a rough bust of a Roman patrician, stoic, not a soft feature in his face. On the wall behind him hung a lighted glass shadow box with a pear-shaped bear paddling a canoe on a brilliant blue lake. In the sky above the bear, clouds spelled out the words Hamm’s Beer.MoreLess
Two miles out of town he stopped at a small tavern nearly hidden by a dense stand of birches. Behind it the lake glittered. A neon sign blinked from a w...indow, bright green: jack be nimble’s. Gun parked in the lot and walked inside. The walls were knotty pine, darkly golden in the weak light.
Behind the gleaming mahogany bar stood a man in a black crew cut. He was short and looked like a rough bust of a Roman patrician, stoic, not a soft feature in his face. On the wall behind him hung a lighted glass shadow box with a pear-shaped bear paddling a canoe on a brilliant blue lake. In the sky above the bear, clouds spelled out the words Hamm’s Beer.MoreLess
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