Download or read book Who's Marli? written by Hank Lajoie and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen-year-old Marli has always dreamed of becoming a star. She cant believe her good fortune when, Jeff, a talent scout encourages her to leave her small hometown of Harlan, Iowa, to become an actress in New York. But Marli discovers its a big, bad world out there. After being told that shes flunked acting school, shes brutally raped by someone she trusts. Something inside Marli cracks; she uses the perpetrators own knife and slashes her assailants throat. A killer is born. She is offered a position she cannot refuse: as an assassin for a local crime boss. It will make her a wealthy woman. Along with Jeff, her mentor, the talent scout who brought her to the big city, she finds psychopathic pleasure in the art of disguise, passion, murder, and mayhem. Marlis secret relationship with Jeff poses risks that the crime boss is not willing to take. Marli can only hope she lives long enough to realize her dreams of success in acting, riches, and a happy marriage.