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    "description": "Rip-offs are a dangerous game, but heist man Miles Keller thinks he\u2019s found a good strategy: rob rich New York criminals and then retire early, before word\u2019s out about his true identity. New town, new name, no worries.\n\nRetirement can\u2019t come soon enough, though. The NYPD is investigating him for the shooting of a hitman named Jack Deen, who was targeting Lucy Gates\u2015a former police informant and Miles\u2019s ex-lover.\n\nMiles thinks shooting hitmen counts as altruism, but in any case a murder charge would make life difficult. He\u2019s ready to go to ground, but then Nina Stone reappears in his life.\n\nNina is a fellow heist professional and the estranged wife of LA crime boss Charles Stone. Miles last saw her five years ago, and since then her life has grown more complicated: her husband wants her back, and he\u2019s dispatched his go-to gun thug to play repo man.\n\nComplicating matters is the fact that the gun thug in question is Bobby Deen, cousin of the dead Jack Deen\u2015and Bobby wants vengeance.\n\nThe stakes couldn\u2019t be higher, but Nina has an offer that could be lucrative. Maybe Miles can stick around a while longer\u2026",
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