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"Elegantly written, hard-boiled fare -- Philip Marlowe on a Sierra Club outing..." * Read the first chapter Read reviews... AIM FOR THE HEART (writing as Wendell McCall) Chris Klick, the tracer of missing musicians who made a memorable debut in Dead Aim, is trying to take a few weeks off between assignments at his home in the Idaho mountains. He's never too far from danger, though, as he and his buddy Lyel, a former pro basketball player now clipping coupons, find themselves investigating a series of mysterious occurrences. An accident at the local airport leaves the pilot dead under unusual circumstances. Lyel asks Klick to help him find a woman who is apparently attempting to out-run her creditors. Or was she kidnapped? But events reach a new level of intensity when the seductive Alicia Gebhardt engages Klick's services at prices too high for this line of work, leaving him wondering what he's gotten himself into-and whether he can get out without be-in killed. Grippingly told in a style that calls to mind the grace, speed, and power of a high-performance sports car, Aim for the Heart accelerates to scenes of raw action, providing another explosive adventure for Chris Klick and placing Wendell McCall in the front rank of private-eye novelists writing today. * Kirkus Reviews Buy the book from an independent bookstore.