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ISBN: 1842430017
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Price: £6.99
Casing: Paperback
Format: B (198 x 129mm)
Extent: 192pp
Rights: UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada
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

Richard Hudson is a used-car salesman with a pimp's understanding of the ways in which women (and men) are most vulnerable. He sees himself as a walking allegory, the confidence man as work of art.

Hudson lives with his beautiful mother, her blacklisted movie-director husband (twenty years her junior), and an over-sexed teenage step-sister. He feels driven to make a movie and, when it's cut and shifted to TV he extracts a terrifying revenge.

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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,