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The Cat and the Criminal
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 5 2025
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Flamethrower Freddy has had enough. As second-in-command to the city's eminent crime lord, Howitzer Harry, he's tired of cleaning up messes and watching plans crumble due to his boss's ego and arrogance. A change is needed, and Freddy is determined to be that change. His opportunity arrives in the unlikely form of Janet, a desperate cat-human hybrid caught red-handed stealing food from his home.
Under threat of death, Janet is forced into Freddy's audacious scheme - a plan to sneak into a military base and steal a tank, using the war machine as a symbol of his power and as the spearhead of his campaign to usurp Howitzer Harry's control of the criminal underworld. As they navigate the treacherous landscape of gang warfare, recruiting allies and facing off against rivals, their unusual partnership begins to solidify into an unexpected bond. Freddy, accustomed to backstabbing and brutality, finds himself conflicted over a growing affection towards the creature he initially saw as nothing more than a tool.
While dodging assassins, conquering enemies, and escaping Howitzer Harry's increasingly deadly attacks, Freddy finds himself confronting a more personal struggle: can he overthrow a tyrant without becoming one himself? The things he has to do in order to defeat his enemies and the unexpected bond he's formed with Janet cause him to question what kind of man he really is. Freddy knows what it will take to rule the criminal underworld, but he must decide if the throne is worth sacrificing the last vestiges of his own humanity.
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