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Powder Burn

by Carl Hiaasen, Bill Montalbano
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Overview

Architect Chris Meadows has the bad luck to see an old girlfriend get hit by a car full of drugland hitmen. He has the worse luck to see the face of her murderers. Because in a town as violent as Miami, a witness doesn't stand a chance—especially when the cops who ought to be protecting him are more interested in dangling him as live bait.

Synopsis

Architect Chris Meadows has the bad luck to see an old girlfriend get hit by a car full of drugland hitmen. He has the worse luck to see the face of her murderers. Because in a town as violent as Miami, a witness doesn't stand a chance—especially when the cops who ought to be protecting him are more interested in dangling him as live bait.

Newgate Callendar

[An] expertly plotted novel. -- The New York Times Book Review

About the Author, Carl Hiaasen

In his thrilling and hilarious mysteries, Carl Hiaasen does for the Florida Coast what Raymond Chandler did for L.A., embracing it in all its steamy surrealness, and elevating it to a kind of iconographic literary landscape.

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Newgate Callendar

[An] expertly plotted novel. -- The New York Times Book Review

Book Details

Published
June 1, 1998
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages
279
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780375700682

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