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Merciless: A Novel
Step into the trench coat of Max Mercer, a private detective with a hair trigger and no patience for loud neckties, overly enthusiastic soup slurps, or librarians who take their shushing a little too seriously. In Merciless, Raymond White crafts a scathing, side-eyed homage to noir fiction—and then shoots it in the face.
When a mysterious woman strolls into Mercer’s grimy office with perfume and a missing opera-singing canary, it kicks off a chain of events involving jealous bird collectors, crypto secrets, high society conspiracies, and at least one murder over prosciutto-wrapped melon.
This isn’t your grandfather’s detective novel. It’s a bullet-riddled fever dream where justice is measured in spent casings and style crimes are punishable by death. Whether you’re outraged or awestruck, you won’t be able to look away.
When a mysterious woman strolls into Mercer’s grimy office with perfume and a missing opera-singing canary, it kicks off a chain of events involving jealous bird collectors, crypto secrets, high society conspiracies, and at least one murder over prosciutto-wrapped melon.
This isn’t your grandfather’s detective novel. It’s a bullet-riddled fever dream where justice is measured in spent casings and style crimes are punishable by death. Whether you’re outraged or awestruck, you won’t be able to look away.
50 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 4, 2025
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