one good deed audible <p>in this fast-paced historical thriller, the number one <i>new york times</i> best-selling author introduces archer, a wwii veteran forced to investigate a small-town murder - or risk returning to prison. </p> <p>it's 1949. when war veteran aloysius archer is released from carderock prison, he is sent to poca city on parole with a short list of dos and a much longer list of don'ts: do report regularly to his parole officer, don't go to bars, certainly don't drink alcohol, do get a job - and don't ever associate with loose women. </p> <p>the small town quickly proves more complicated and dangerous than archer's years serving in the war or his time in jail. within a single night, his search for gainful employment - and a stiff drink - leads him to a local bar, where he is hired for what seems like a simple job: to collect a debt owed to a powerful local businessman, hank pittleman. </p> <p>soon archer discovers that recovering the debt won't be so easy. the indebted man has a furious grudge against hank and refuses to pay; hank's clever mistress has her own designs on archer; and both hank and archer's stern parole officer, miss crabtree, are keeping a sharp eye on him. </p> <p>when a murder takes place right under archer's nose, police suspicions rise against the ex-convict, and archer realizes that the crime could send him right back to prison...if he doesn't use every skill in his arsenal to track down the real killer.</p>