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The Split Man (Holden Burke #2)

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Time 2h 40m

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"I've known a lot of people with worse lives than you. It's part of the business I'm in -- I get to see all kinds of human privilege, human weakness, human strangeness...and human trouble."

Holden Burke has better things to do than run around in the messy love life of a rich kid who wants to find his runaway fling. But that was before a body turned up in a lake, and someone who has a connection to it seemed to have gone missing. Someone who everyone is searching for...

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