Hooligans

Dunetown was once a quiet friendly little town. Now it had 24-hour porno palaces, neon

casinos, a big racetrack and was run by the Cincinnati Triad. Together with the Special

Operations Branch of the Dunetown Police Department, Kilmer aims to put them out of

business.

WILLIAM DIEHL

HOOLIGANS

BALLANTINE BOOKS • NEW YORK

Copyright © 1984 by Hooligans, Inc.

All rights reserved under International and Pan—American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, a division of

Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 83-50862

ISBN Q-345-31201-5

This edition published by arrangement with Villard Books

Manufactured in the United States of America

First Ballantine Books Edition: May 1985

Map by David Lindroth

This book is dedicated to Virginia, who is the love of my life;

To Michael Parver, for his support and friendship through the tough times,

and for Stick;

And to my father, the most gentle and loving man I have ever known, who died before it was completed.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

My thanks and gratitude to my family and friends for their constant encouragement and support: to my mother,

Temple, Cathy, John and Kate, Bill, Melissa arid David, Stan arid Yvonne, Bobby Byrd, Carole Jackowitz,

Marilyn Parver, Michael Rothschild, Billy Wallace, Frank Mazolla, the Harrisons of Lookout Mountain, Mark

Vaughn, Barbara Thomas, jack and Jim.

To a true and trusting friend, Don Smith, whose wit and wisdom always help.

To my good friend, C.H. “Buddy” Harris, of the Treasury Department, for his selfless assistance and attention to

detail, and to his wife, Joan, and daughter, Robin.

To Director Charles F. Rinkevich, Deputy Director David McKinley, Kent Williams, Charles E. Nester, Morris

Grodsky, and the other officers of the Treasury Department?s Federal Law Enforcement Training Center,