The Badger Game

Crime Mysteries by Norman Shabel

A mutilated body was found by two young hunters…frozen… and slashed viciously with a knife. Part of the face was eaten away. Horace Badger, the dean of men at the nearby at Reliance College had been murdered. But why so brutally? By whom was the question, and why? Stosh Klewzewski, the cruel leader of the violent Catholic White Knights is charged with the murder. But did he do it?

Defense attorney Paul Flaherty and his legal assistant, law student Sam Waterman, have the job of proving his innocence – even if they have questions about it themselves.

From the battlefields and horrors of WWII, to the courtrooms, politics, and sexual abuse scandals of the Catholic church in 1950’s Pennsylvania, Norman Shabel has written a gripping, suspenseful story that’s hard to put down until the shocking end. Just as compelling as his first novel, God Knows No Heroes. The Badger Game is a great read that keeps you hooked from the first minute to the final tick.

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