A World of Thieves - Softcover

Blake, James Carlos

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060512474 ISBN 13: 9780060512477

Publisher: William Morrow & Company, 2003

Synopsis

In 1928 New Orleans, eighteen-year-old Sonny LaSalle is a top prep student and champion amateur boxer -- and he venerates his fraternal twin uncles, Buck and Russell, armed robbers who love their profession. Sonny secretly believes that he, too, is a natural outlaw and persuades his uncles to take him on as a partner. But when a bank job goes bad, Sonny is sent to jail, where he unintentionally kills a policeman who is the son of the most feared lawman in Louisiana, widely known as "John Bones."

After nine months in the infamous Angola penitentiary, Sonny makes a harrowing escape and manages to reunite with Buck and Russell. The carefree trio head out for the boomtowns of west Texas, where the money flows as freely as the oil, unaware that vengeance follows close behind, as the cool, calculating John Bones begins a relentless campaign to hunt down Sonny ... no matter what.

About this title

Review:

"An eminently readable novel."--Fort Worth Star Telegram

"Classic Blake, mixing violence with passion, the hardnose with the sensitive...No one out there does this better."--Denver Post

"Blake puts the roar back into the Roaring Twenties."--Austin Chronicle

About the Author:

James Carlos Blake is the author of nine novels. Among his literary honors are the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Southwest Book Award, Quarterly West Novella Prize, and Chautauqua South Book Award. He lives in Arizona.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0060512474
• ISBN 13: 9780060512477
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304