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Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Harley Mazuk’s LAST PUFFS Blog Tour March 5 – 30!

Last Puffs

Inside the Book

Title: LAST PUFFS
Author: Harley Mazuk
Publisher: New Pulp Press
Pages: 293
Genre: Mystery/Crime/Private Eye

BOOK BLURB:

Frank Swiver and his college pal, Max Rabinowitz, both fall in love with Amanda Zingaro, courageous Republican guerilla, in the Spanish civil war. But the local fascists murder her and her father.

Eleven years later in San Francisco in 1949, Frank, traumatized by the violence in Spain, has become a pacifist and makes a marginal living as a private eye. Max who lost an eye in Spain but owes his life to Frank, has pledged Frank eternal loyalty. He’s a loyal communist party member and successful criminal attorney.

Frank takes on a case for Joan Spring, half-Chinese wife of a wealthy banker. Joan seduces Frank to ensure his loyalty. But Frank busts up a prostitution/white slavery ring at the Lotus House a brothel in Chinatown, where Joan was keeping refugees from Nanking prisoners.

Then Max sees a woman working in a Fresno cigar factory, who is a dead ringer for Amanda, and brings in Frank, who learns it is Amanda. She has tracked the fascists who killed her father and left her for dead from her village in Spain to California. Amanda wants Frank to help her take revenge. And by the way, she says the ten-year-old boy with her is Frank’s son.

Joan Spring turns out to be a Red Chinese secret agent, and she’s drawn a line through Max’s name with a pencil. Can Frank save Max again? Can he help Amanda avenge her father when he’s sworn off violence? Can he protect her from her target’s daughter, the sadistic Veronica Rios-Ortega? Join Frank Swiver in the swift-moving story, Last Puffs.

Praise:

.5 out of 5 stars Wonderful Read – Easy and Fun

February 10, 2018

Format: Kindle Edition| Verified Purchase

Frank Swiver is a detective. Murder investigations are his specialty. He likes wine, loose women and fast cars. Not necessarily in that order. Swiver inhabits an earlier world that is archaic and, without doubt, politically incorrect by today’s standards. Harley Mazuk recreates in Swiver a character from another era whose story is fun and entertaining. Mazuk has an impressive knowledge of wines and cars which permeate his narrative. As to his knowledge of women, I am not competent to judge. I do know that the geography and time period portrayed is well researched. There are many twists and turns to the plot as well as an injection of espionage that keeps the reader guessing. Fans of old fashion detective novels will enjoy this book. I know, I did.

— Amazon Reviewer

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Meet the Author

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Harley Mazuk was born in Cleveland, the last year that the Indians won the World Series. He majored in English literature at Hiram College in Ohio, and Elphinstone College, Bombay, India. Harley worked as a record salesman (vinyl) and later served the U.S. Government in Information Technology and in communications, where he honed his writing style as an editor and content provider for official web sites.

Retired now, he likes to write pulp fiction, mostly private eye stories, several of which have appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. His first full length novel, White with Fish, Red with Murder, was released in 2017, and his newest, Last Puffs, just came out in January 2018.

Harley’s other passions are his wife Anastasia, their two children, reading, running, Italian cars, California wine and peace.

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TOUR SCHEDULE

Monday, March 5

Book Teaser at PUYB Book Teasers

Book Feature & Tour Kick Off at PUYB Virtual Book Club

Tuesday, March 6

Book Featured at Cheryl’s Book Nook

Book Featured at Stormy Nights Reviewing & Bloggin’

Wednesday, March 7

Guest Blogging at The Girl Who Loved Books

Thursday, March 8

Interview at The Writer’s Life

Friday, March 9

Book Featured at C.A. Milson’s Blog

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Monday, March 12

Interview at A Blue Million Books

Tuesday, March 13

Interview at The Dark Phantom Reviews

Wednesday, March 14

Book Featured at Stacking My Bookshelves

Thursday, March 15

Guest Blogging at Lori’s Reading Corner

Friday, March 16

Guest Blogging at Dear Reader, Love Author

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Monday, March 19

Guest Blogging at Blogging Authors

Tuesday, March 20

Book Featured at Bound 2 Escape

Wednesday, March 21

Book Featured at tfaulc Book Reviews

Thursday, March 22

Interview at BloggerNews Net

Friday, March 23

Book Featured at Write and Take Flight

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Monday, March 26

Guest Blogging at Sheila’s Guests and Reviews

Tuesday, March 27

Interview at The Pulp and the Mystery Shelf

Wednesday, March 28

Book Featured at I’m Shelf-ish

Thursday, March 29

Interview at Literarily Speaking

Friday, March 30

Character Interview at Pimp That Character

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