Book description
'No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford' Elmore Leonard
In a hot Florida summer, Sergeant Hoke Moseley is losing his mind:
his ex-wife just remarried, his teenage daughters want to quit school,
his beat partner is eight months pregnant - and living in his house -
and his desk is disappearing under a ton of cold cases. So a little
holiday to Singer Island seems like the perfect break.
But things don't always work out. A handsome, cowboy-hatted
psychopath is planning another armed robbery - one that will draw in a
grumpy dog-poisoning retiree and leave half-a-dozen bystanders dead.
And in this hilarious, wicked tale of crime and mid-life crisis, it
seems that only Hoke can stop him.
'Better than Hall and Hiaasen and as good as Elmore Leonard at his
best' Time Out
This is the third in the Hoke Mosely series; the other titles in
Penguin Modern Classics include Miami Blues, New Hope for
the Dead
and The Way We Die Now, while fans of the books include
Quentin Tarantino, Elmore Leonard and James Lee Burke.
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.
