{"product_id":"one-bullet-two-lies-e-l-chase-9798274721981","title":"One Bullet Two Lies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHe wanted out. The city wanted blood.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohnny Vega-ex-courier, part-time trigger-man, full-time cynic-has one last job before the shadows swallow him whole. A dead husband. A live insurance policy. Two million in unmarked bonds that stink of sweat, lies, and gun oil. Clean payout on paper. Dirty as hell in practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe widow? A ghost with lipstick.\u003cbr\u003eThe partner? A woman with a smile like a razor.\u003cbr\u003eThe city? A maze wired to explode.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohnny's been in tight corners before. Alleyway shootouts. Double-crosses in the rain. Bodies dropped in basements nobody remembers. But this time the game's rigged tighter. Every street's a trap. Every friend's a Judas. Every answer comes with a price tag.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the ledger turns up.\u003cbr\u003eTrain schedules. Policy numbers. Loaded clues hidden in plain sight. Someone planned the whole spiral long before Johnny stepped into it. Someone who knows his habits. His sins. His tells.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow he's racing through dawn traffic with cops on one tail, syndicate boys on the other, and a woman on a red Vespa who's quicker than regret. The bonds thump against his chest like a countdown. The .38 on his hip whispers trouble. And Johnny knows the score-life doesn't pay in cash; it pays in bodies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA subway platform becomes a kill-box.\u003cbr\u003eA suitcase spills enough money to break a nation.\u003cbr\u003eOne slip. One arc of blue-white light.\u003cbr\u003eOne more name scratched off the city's dirty ledger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohnny walks away with half the loot and all the ghosts. But cash is never clean. Not in this town. Not with these players. The syndicate isn't done. The past isn't dead. And the woman he thought he buried left him one last message-the kind that burns colder than the third rail she kissed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe spiral's paid. But the chamber's still empty.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd Johnny Vega knows what that means.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe's not out.\u003cbr\u003eHe's not safe.\u003cbr\u003eHe's just next.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFast. Brutal. Twisting.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA crime noir where every page swings another punch.\u003cbr\u003eEvery chapter cuts deeper.\u003cbr\u003eAnd nobody-nobody-walks away clean.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIf you like your thrillers lean, mean, and smoking at the edges-this one's loaded.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e E. L. Chase\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798274721981\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/16\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d","brand":"E. L. Chase","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49171065700607,"sku":"9798274721981","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/one-bullet-two-lies-e-l-chase-9798274721981","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}