Passage of Arms: A Suspense Thriller (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) - Softcover

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Mr. Tan, a Chinese pirate, offers American Greg Nilsen a job as a front man in a gun-running stint, a business in which the stakes are as high as the pay-off. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.