The Heartbreak Lounge

by Stroby, Wallace

• ISBN13: 9780312939120
• ISBN10: 0312939124
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-07
• Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks

Summary

After a seven-year stretch inside a Florida penitentiary for attempted murder, Johnny Harrow knows exactly what he'll do when he gets out. He's going home to the shabby Jersey shore town where his girlfriend Nikki made the most selfless decision of her hard life: Giving up their newborn son for adoption. It's time for Johnny to claim what's his'¦ Nikki made one terrible mistake'”she didn't tell Johnny her decision until the child was gone. She knows Johnny never forgets'¦or forgives. She also knows what he's capable of. It's up to her to protect the child once again'¦ Desperate to save the child from the seething menace that is Johnny Harrow, Nikki turns to former New Jersey state trooper Harry Rane for help. Now, an investigator, Rane must crawl through the darkest corners of the New Jersey underworld to find Johnny and stop him. But Johnny Harrow isn't a man who's often caught unaware'¦and so the game begins.

Author Biography

WALLACE STROBY is an editor for the New Jersey Star Ledger. His first novel, The Barbed-Wire Kiss, was a finalist for the Barry Award for Best First Novel. He lives in New Jersey, where he was born and raised.

Table of Contents

THEY TOOK JOHNNY'S SON AWAY
After a seven-year stretch inside a Florida penitentiary for attempted murder, Johnny Harrow knows exactly what he'll do when he gets out. He's going home to the shabby Jersey shore town where his girlfriend Nikki made the most selfless decision of her hard life: Giving up their newborn son for adoption. It's time for Johnny to claim what's his…

NOW JOHNNY'S COMING BACK FOR THE KID
Nikki made one terrible mistake—she didn't tell Johnny her decision until the child was gone. She knows Johnny never forgets…or forgives. She also knows what he's capable of. It's up to her to protect the child once again…

BUT ONE MAN STANDS IN HIS WAY
Desperate to save the child from the seething menace that is Johnny Harrow, Nikki turns to former New Jersey state trooper Harry Rane for help. Now, an investigator, Rane must crawl through the darkest corners of the New Jersey underworld to find Johnny and stop him. But Johnny Harrow isn't a man who's often caught unaware…and so the game begins.

“A tightly plotted fireball of suspense…action-paced with unpredictable twists.”
--Florida Sun-Sentinel