The Bootleggers (Adam Larsen Mysteries)

By Kenneth L. Levinson

New Year’s Eve at a popular Denver night spot. Undercover police officers and a Denver lawyer named Adam Larsen—all pursuing the same drug dealer. Their plans go up in smoke when a bomb kills the police informant. The clock is ticking and the murderer must be identified before the stroke of midnight. This title is published by Uncial Press and is distributed worldwide by Untreed Reads.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Untreed Reads
• Release date: Dec 14, 2012
• ISBN: 9781601741493

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THE BOOTLEGGERS

A Mystery NovelByte

By

Kenneth L. Levinson

Uncial Press       Aloha, Oregon

2012

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and events described herein are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locations, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

ISBN 13: 978-1-60174-149-3

ISBN 10: 1-60174-149-9

The Bootleggers

Copyright © 2012 by Kenneth L. Levinson

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Copyright © 2012 by Judith B. Glad

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The Bootleggers

The explosion shook the crowded dance club. The plush booth where I was seated rose and fell as though there had been an earthquake. As a pillar of thick black smoke erupted from the basement stairway, people began rushing frantically toward the exits.

Sergeant Joe Stone of the Denver Police had been saying something to me—I never did find out what—when the blast halted him in mid-sentence. He jumped to his feet and began waving his leather badge case in the air. Over the din of the dozens of terrified patrons who, moments before, had been boisterously celebrating New Year's Eve, he shouted, I'm a police officer. Everyone stay calm!

Another undercover cop joined in, and