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ISBN: 1842430092
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Price: £6.99
Casing: Paperback
Format: B (198 x 129mm)
Extent: 213pp
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Pub. Date: January 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, hardboiled pulp in the style of Jim Thompson and then in the eighties the 4 superb Hoke Moseley novels. The first of these - Miami Blues - was made into a film starring William Baldwin, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Fred Ward.

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Freddy "Junior" Frenger, psycho fresh out of San Quentin flies into Miami airport with a pocketful of stolen credit cards and disappears leaving behind the corpse of a Hare Krishna. Soon homicide detective, Hoke Moseley is pursuing the chameleonlike Frenger and his airheaded hooker, girlfriend through the smart hotels, Cuban ghettoes and seedy surburban malls of Miami in a deadly game of hide and seek.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

"...the master of cynical Florida crime fiction ..." - The Times

"...Miami seems to have eclipsed L.A. & New York as the crime capital, so it's fitting that the best book on the mystery racks these days should be Charles Willeford's Miami Blues..." - Village Voice

"...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,