Sideswipe - Softcover

Willeford, Charlie

4.04

1,317 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440218829 ISBN 13: 9780440218821

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1996

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Retiring from the police force when his life becomes too stressful, former Miami homicide detective Hoke Moseley is drawn back into police work by a weird case involving a psychopathic armed robber and a curmudgeon retiree. Reprint.

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Review:

"...better than Hall and Hiaasen and as good as Elmore Leonard at his best." -- Time Out

"A blend of gripping action and wry off-beat humour." -- The Washington Post

"Hoke Moseley is a magnificently battered hero. Willeford brings him to us lean and hard." -- Donald E. Westlake

"No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford." -- Elmore Leonard

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Having a nervous breakdown, two daughters who want to quit high school, and a very pregnant, unmarried partner tells Hoke Moseley that it's time to simplify his crazy life. Moving away from Miami to manage a small hotel seems like the perfect solution, until a psychopathic career criminal like Troy Louden comes along. He brings with him a ragtag, makeshift gang that includes a little old man, a no-talent artist, and a terribly disfigured stripper - all of whom get Hoke caught up in a crime of carnage that pulls him back to the job he thought he'd left behind forever.

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