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Criminally Gifted 

But the real endurance test for any hero is how attuned he is to his own native turf. Loren D. Estleman's hard-boiled private eye, Amos Walker, is so much a part of Detroit they should name a car after him. He's already built like a small truck, the better to take the physical punishment he gets in NICOTINE KISS (Forge/Tom Doherty, $23.95). ("I have one of those faces guys want to push in when they feel like pushing in a face," he explains.) In an attempt to repay a debt to a cigarette smuggler, Walker follows his route along a desolate shore of Lake Huron, where he runs across enough mean-spirited hunters, snowmobilers, counterfeiters and government agents

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