"The Dishwasher" of the name is invoice Malone, a stoic, tough-as-nails ex-con who has simply entire a stretch of fourteen not easy years in criminal for financial institution theft. What he wishes greater than something is peace and safe haven from the chaos and mortal threat of prison existence. published in Fresno, he quick unearths a room on the superstar lodge at the fringe of city and a role as a dishwasher at Ferraro's eating place. The inn proprietor is Gail, a retired unique dancer and the spouse of difficult Tony, Malone's pal from the joint. Gail and her ravingly nubile thirteen-year-old daughter, June, take Malone below their wing; Leona, a bluntly sensual black waitress, ministers to Malone's aching desire for intercourse. He turns out ultimately to have arrived at a secure position. the protection disappears instantly whilst Malone is pressured to take brutal revenge opposed to a Mexican drug broker who rapes June. That second of explosive violence units him on an inexorable collision direction with the Sandinos, a dysfunctional Mafia kin in stark decline. an individual goes down - and Malone is set to face his floor.
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