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Name: Slide
Author: Ken Bruen

📘 Slide by Ken Bruen

Slide follows a small‑time drug dealer who, after years of playing the margins of the underground, finds himself pulled into a heightened world of crime. With the help of a rag‑tag assortment of friends—each more dangerous than the last—he pushes the limits of his own low‑grade status. Interwoven with gritty, violent encounters, the novel explores what happens when a small‑time criminal finally chooses to go for the big money.

First publish date: 2007

Genre: Crime Fiction/Criminal Underworld

Authors: Ken Bruen

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