Peril Is My Pay (The Chester Drum Mysteries #11)

By: Stephen Marlowe

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Synopsis: In Rome for the Olympics, Drum witnesses an assassinationWhen he was in college, Kyle Ryder picked up athletic records effortlessly. Now he picks up girls. An Olympic-quality javelin thrower, he has recently fallen for a Czechoslovakian Amazon named Hilda, whose weapon of choice is the discus. On the eve of the Rome summer Olympics, Kyle&’s father hires private detective Chester Drum to follow his son. He doesn&’t mind the girl—it&’s her Soviet handlers who make him nervous. The Olympic torch hasn&’t even been lit when their love affair takes its first casualty. Their Italian go-between, Signor Mozzoni, is crossing the street when a Citroën runs him down. With their protector dead, Kyle and his girlfriend vanish. If Drum doesn&’t find the missing athletes quickly, the Soviet trainers will give them a workout from which they&’ll never recover.