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ISBN: 1901982904
Price: £6.99
Casing: Paperback
Format: B (198 x 129mm)
Extent: 342pp
Rights: UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada
Pub. Date: July 2000

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

The versatile David Lozell Martin is known for such creepy suspense tales as Tap Tap and Bring Me Children, as well as for mainstream literary fiction such as The Crying Heart Tattoo, and The Beginning of Sorrow.

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ABOUT THE BOOK

From the bestselling author of Lie to Me comes a novel of love redemption and felony theft - an uproarious, unforgettable caper set in New Orleans about a scam artist who teams up with a group of nuns to recover a stolen religious icon. James Joseph Pelikan rules the back wards of the New Orleans French Quarter from midnight to dawn. When his estranged nephew Charlie shows up in town, the old scam artist Pelikan immediately ensnares him in a magnum heist that gets Charlie pursued as a murder suspect and threatened by a high-class but crazy Creole doctor with his own twisted agenda.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

'Lozell renders the grit and stink of the back-street dives with nose-pinching accuracy, and his dialogue goes down quicker than a tequila slammer'
- David Hopkins, The London Times

'Martin's New Orleans makes me real glad I'm from Toledo, Ohio'
- P. J. O'Rourke

'Pelikan infuses the caper thriller with strains of pure-D American gothic, New Orleans-style, French Quarter-style, in a pitch of high comic singularity. It's an amazing and unputdownable novel'
- Stephen Hunter

'a lovely, strange story '
- The Morning Star [read the full review]