# Dead Skip

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- Book: [Dead Skip](https://www.bookquiver.com/joe-gores/dead-skip) ([Dead Skip.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/joe-gores/dead-skip.md))
- Authors: [Joe Gores](https://www.bookquiver.com/joe-gores)
- Publisher: the_murder_room
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7191-750-9
- Published: 2015-02-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Ballard has seventy-two hours to find out who attacked his partner, Bart Heslip, who's lying in the hospital in a coma. Now Ballard is racing around the frayed edges of Oakland and San Francisco tracing down deadbeats. A stripper, an embezzler and an ex-con all have repo'd cars in common. Do they also share a murder? The clock's ticking away like Bart's heartbeat, but Ballard is up against a dead skip, a blank wall. Then Ballard's boss, Dan Kearny, jumps into the hunt, loving every minute of it - and hurtling them both toward the barrel of a gun ...