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The Bartender

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The Bartender

By: Ernest Dempsey
Narrated by: John Pirhalla, Stephanie Németh-Parker
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He used to make problems disappear. Now he makes cocktails.

Nathan Crowe spent six years as an elite contract assassin—precise, professional, and very good at staying invisible. Then a child walked into the wrong room at the wrong moment, and he made the only choice he couldn't take back. He survived the fall. He buried the name. He became a bartender in Atlanta and told himself that was enough.

It almost was.

When Naomi Lang stumbles into his bar with men on her trail, Nathan recognizes the signs immediately—she's been flagged by the same network he once worked for. She's published a video exposing a pattern of suspicious deaths, and now the people who authorized those deaths want her silenced. Permanently.

Nathan doesn't want a last job. He doesn't want to be what he used to be. But the past doesn't negotiate, and the woman in front of him doesn't have anyone else.

The Bartender is a relentless chase across the American South—from Atlanta to Charleston to Nashville to the hills of Virginia—as a man who faked his death tries to protect a woman who stumbled onto the truth, while a network of killers, corrupt officials, and old partners close in from every direction.

He left that life behind. It wasn't finished with him.

©2026 Ernest Dempsey (P)2026 Podium Audio
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