Book description
At four-thirty one January afternoon a bus returning to Miami and
Fort Lauderdale containing tourists who have been visiting a Seminole
Indian Reservation is held up at gunpoint by five hooded gangsters.
The combined ages of the 5 robbers total 320 years.
Leslie Thomas's latest novel is the hilarious account of the
adventures of a group of elderly gangsters in Florida - the Ocean
Drive Delinquent Society, known as the ODDS for short. The members
include Ari the Greek - he of the legendary nose; K-K-K-Katy, the
aging dancing girl who can still manage a high kick; and Molly Mandy,
whose metal detector uncovers the gang's arms cache - and it's the one
and only bullet.
Along with Sidewalk Joe, Lou the Barbender, and one or two more,
they form a daring band who have little to lose, and their audacious -
and frequently unsuccessful - enterprises soon have Captain Salvatore
of the local police baffled. Salvatore calls in an elderly private
eye, George Zaharran, to help him out, but instead of simplifying the
mystery, Zaharran's presence serves only to multiply it.
That Old Gang of Mine is both a riotous adventure and an
affectionate evocation of the geriatric gang's bond with the beautiful
girl and two younger men who lead it. It is wholly delightful book
form the pen of one of England's funniest storytellers.
