Book description
Ex-con Freddy 'Junior' Frenger lands in Miami with three stolen
wallets and plans for a new life of crime, and leaves the airport with
a snatched suitcase and the corpse of a Hare Krishna behind him.
Homicide detective Hoke Moseley is soon on his case, chasing the
utterly immoral Junior and his hooker girlfriend through the Cuban
ghettoes, luxury hotels and seedy suburban sprawl of Miami in a game
of hide and seek that will leave Hoke beaten, robbed - but determined
to get his man.
A brutal, thrilling ride, Miami Blues is a classic of Florida
crime fiction, revealing the sordid side of the Sunshine State.
Charles Willeford was a highly decorated tank commander (Silver Star,
Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Luxembourg Croix de Guerre) with the Third
Army in World War II. He was also a professional horse trainer, boxer,
radio announcer, and painter. Willeford, the author of twenty novels,
created the Miami detective series featuring Hoke Moseley, which
includes
Miami Blues, Sideswipe, The Way We Die Now,
and
New Hope for the Dead
. He died in 1988.
