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'Lure of the Dirty Dollar is set in Sydney in the late 1990s. The background to the story revolves around the Cash In Transit industry, where the main protagonist, David Lewis, ex-Navy clearance diver, nightclub owner, screw and sometime private investigator works on the armoured cars as a casual employee, a cover for his more sinister occupation as a career hit man for a secret government agency. Lewis's next contract kill is an ex Stasi intelligence officer, Rudi Dietrich, who, it has been decided by various governments around the world, must be liquidated as he has been organizing robberies across Europe with gangs of other ex military personnel that have netted millions of dollars in cash, gold and diamonds. The proceeds, it is believed, may be used as a refunding for the once powerful Stasi organization, or helping to finance Rudi's old masters to continue living in the style they had become accustomed to. Dietrich and his live-in lover, Vass Tsanidis, are seduced by Lewis, who gains their confidence through his machinations, getting the pair involved in a plot to rob an armoured vehicle in an effort to make a dirty dollar before Lewis is ready to kill Dietrich. Twist and turns make this story highly possible, with the intrigue and espionage that we find so much a part of normality in these troubled times. It's a fast-paced read of raw talk, sex, drugs and violence, definitely not for the faint hearted or wowser.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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'David Lewis, EX Screw, Navy Diver, Bouncer, nightclub owner and sometime Private Inquiry Agent who still works for Centurion Armoured as an Armoured Vehicle Operator is back and in more trouble than Brick Bradford. After years of scamming and moving in some seedy circles making a Dirty Dollar Lewis has left Sydney's Northern Beaches for a tree change, buying a farm North in the quiet and picturesque Mt Seaview region, on the New South Wales Mid North Coast. Where yet another involvement in a scheme to make some lucrative spondoolies with Lurk merchant Seedy Phil Moore lands David into contact with Career Criminal Steve Forbes, a nasty piece of work who wants David to join him, in on an audacious heist that will make them both rich if they can manage to pull it off, while still trying to keep a couple of steps ahead of each other. As if that wasn't enough on his plate Lewis's good friends the Lamb's turn to him for help with a big problem of their own with a couple of bikies from the Sydney Chapter of The Animals OMG, who have fronted up for a piece of the action from The Baa Baa's erotic internet amateur dirty talking business. Lewis who is old school doesn't believe in letting friends down and is always on the hunt for a quid smells what he thinks will be an easy earn. But it isn't all doom and gloom Dave meets up with an old flame and former Federal Police Officer Rachel Dawes who manages to cast a spell on him with a penchant for her own brand of kinkiness. The scene is set for possibly the biggest and most dangerous rort of Lewis's life.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
- Sydney, New South Wales,
- ca. 1999
