Drawing Dead - Joe Crow, Bk 1 Author:Pete Hautman Unexpectedly losing a crucial poker game, ex-cop Joe Crow is forced to pay his marker by identifying a drug-addicted stockbroker's wife's lover before the man's enemies murder him.
From the back of the book: "Pete Hautman has written a remarkably accomplished and entertaining first novel, and the comparisons to Westlake and Leonard are justified. You'll have a good time with this one." Lawrence Block