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This was a good book, though some of the characters, the detectives in particular, felt a little under developed. Spencer Burnham, an former rally car driver from Britain, runs a used car dealership in Detroit, which is on the brink of going under. In walks Dominic McGrath a gangster who is looking for a guy that can drive really well. After Spencer's business fails, he agrees to work for Dominic, mostly picking up dirty money from one person and handing it off to another to make 'clean'. It's a dangerous job since he's dealing mostly with people in the drug trade. A police detective has made it his mission in life to put Dominic and his gang away, blaming them for the majority of gang violence in the city, Dominic manages to stay one step ahead of the police. There is a lot of violence in this book, some of it is a tad on the graphic side but it did not go overboard, these are all people that use violence to solve problems. Dominic decides that one job will be his last, he's planned the robbery of a bank with the help of an inside source and Spencer is the man tagged to do the driving. Spencer had tried to leave the job taking his young daughter and moving out to take a job in another city, Dominic tracks him down and kidnaps his daughter to force him to do the last job. The driving parts of this book are well described and Spencer is a fully fleshed out character, I just wish there was a bit more backstory on the detectives, I would still say it's worth the read. Thanks to #Netgalley and #Atlantic Monthly Press for the ARC.

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