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loan shark
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  • Veronica's mother is a Bedley Run police officer, whom I've come to know casually in the course of being a village merchant; her father, who used to be an officer himself (and the police chief of Ebbington, in fact), lost his life in a somewhat notorious local incident in which he was caught in a crossfire between his own officers and a group of out-of-town gamblers and loan sharks with whom he was enjoying the evening.†  (source)
  • The loans it could get would be the same that loan sharks commonly lend to bankrupt and fraudulent debtors—very small with an enormous interest rate.†  (source)
  • Something like borrowing $100,000 from a loan shark to pay off Mother's debt and start a new business.†  (source)
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Dreaming that he was Tom Hunter, being chased by loan sharks he'd stiffed for $100,000 four years ago in New York.†  (source)
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