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ISBN: 1842430122
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Price: £7.99
Casing: Paperback
Format: B (198 x 129mm)
Extent: 216pp
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, 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

Hoke Moseley is getting into cold cases - no clues, no leads - and that's fine by him. He's wanted to close the book on that Miami M.D. murder for three years. But his boss has something a little hotter in mind but he is keeping it quiet - telling Hoke to just let his beard grow and sit tight. Stripped of his wallet, gun...even his false teeth, Hoke is sent south to the migrant farms where rumours of slavery and sudden death prove all too true. And now things really are heating up because a guy without protection in that no-man's land is as good as dead.

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,