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The Good Guy Koontz, Dean

Timothy Carrier, having a beer after work at his friends tavern, enjoys drawing eccentric customers into amusing conversations But the jittery man who sits next to him tonight has mistaken Tim for someone very differentand passes to him a manila envelope full of cashTen thousand now You get the rest when shes goneThe stranger walks out, leaving a photo of the pretty woman marked for death, and her address But things are about to get worse In minutes another stranger sits next to Tim This one is a coldblooded killer who believes Tim is the man who has hired himThinking fast, Tim says, Ive had a change of heart You get ten thousandfor doing nothing Call it a nokill fee He keeps the photo and gives the money to the hired killer And when Tim secretly follows the man out of the tavern, he gets a further shock: the hired killer is a copSuddenly, Tim Carrier, an ordinary guy, is at the center of a mystery of extraordinary proportions, the one man who can save an innocent life and stop a killer far more powerful than any copand as relentless as evil incarnate But first Tim must discover within himself the capacity for selflessness, endurance, and courage that can turn even an ordinary man into a hero, inner resources that will transform his idea of who he is and what it takes to be The Good Guy