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© 2012 No Exit Press
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ISBN: 1842430114Price: £7.99
Casing: Paperback
Format: B (198 x 129mm)
Extent: 276pp
Rights: UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada
Pub. Date: November 2001
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
A hobo at age 16, then a decorated WW2 marine, then a teacher of literature, Willeford had two careers as a writer - in the 50's & 60's, with the hardboiled pulp in the style of Jim Thompson and then in the eighties with the four superb Hoke Moseley novels. The first of these - Miami Blues - was made into a film starring William Baldwin, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Fred Ward, and Woman Chaser is soon to be a major movie starring William Warburton.
Sideswipe
by Charles Willeford
by Charles Willeford
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A nervous breakdown, two daughters who want to quit school and a pregnant unmarried partner tells Hoke Moseley it is time to simplify his crazy life. Moving out of Miami to manage a small hotel seems a good idea - until psycho career criminal, Troy Louden, happens along with his makeshift gang that includes a little old man, a no-talent artist, a disfigured stripper and drags Hoke back to the job he thought he had left behind for ever.CRITICAL ACCLAIM
'the master of cynical Florida crime fiction '
- The Times
'Better than Hall and Hiaasen and as good as Elmore Leonard at his best '
- Time Out
'a crime writers' crime writer lionised by peers such as Elmore Leonard and Lawrence Block ... dangerous indeed, with a bitter humour, black as it comes but also so sweet'
- The Herald
'No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford.'
- Elmore Leonard
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