Sideswipe - Hardcover

Willeford, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0575041978 ISBN 13: 9780575041974

Publisher: Gollancz, 1988

Synopsis

Florida homicide detective Hoke Moseley's life suddenly went to bell one morning. His ex-wife had married a big-time pro ballplayer. His two teenage daughters moved in. And his lieutenant had dumped ever? unsolved murder in Miami on him. So Hoke decided to bail out stretch out on Singer Island, give up police work, and watch the ocean roll.

But trouble wasn't going to let Hoke get away. Not a stone's throw from his laid-back new life, a slick, handsome psychopath was planning his next armed robbery. The heist would suck a curmudgeon retiree into a life of crime, blast a half-dozen people, off the planet, and leave nary a clue behind.

It was a case right up Hoke's alley: weird enough to catch his attention, personal enough to make him mad, and twisted enough to make Hoke forget he didn't want to be a cop...a good guy in a world gone very, very bad.

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Review:

Extraordinarily winning . . . pure pleasure. . . . Mr. Willeford never puts a foot wrong. The New Yorker
A blend of gripping action and wry off-beat humor. The Washington Post
No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford. Elmore Leonard
Willeford has a marvelously deadpan way with losers on both sides of the law. Philadelphia Inquirer
Extraordinarily winning . . . pure pleasure . . . Mr. Willeford never puts a foot wrong. --The New Yorker
[A] blend of gripping action and wry off-beat humor. --The Washington Post

No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford. --Elmore Leonard
Nobody writes like Charles Willeford . . . He is an original funny, weird and wonderful. --James Crumley
If you are looking for a master s insight into the humid decadence of South Florida and its polyglot tribes, nobody does that as well as Mr. Willeford. --The New York Times Book Review

Hoke Moseley is a magnificently battered hero. Willeford brings him to us lean and hard and brand-new. --Donald E. Westlake
Willeford has a marvelously deadpan way with losers on both sides of the law. --The Philadelphia Inquirer"

"Extraordinarily winning . . . pure pleasure. . . . Mr. Willeford never puts a foot wrong." --The New Yorker

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

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

"Willeford has a marvelously deadpan way with losers on both sides of the law." --Philadelphia Inquirer

"Extraordinarily winning . . . pure pleasure . . . Mr. Willeford never puts a foot wrong." --The New Yorker

"[A] blend of gripping action and wry off-beat humor." --The Washington Post

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

"Nobody writes like Charles Willeford . . . He is an original-funny, weird and wonderful." --James Crumley

"If you are looking for a master's insight into the humid decadence of South Florida and its polyglot tribes, nobody does that as well as Mr. Willeford." --The New York Times Book Review

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

"Willeford has a marvelously deadpan way with losers on both sides of the law." --The Philadelphia Inquirer

From the Back Cover:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Gollancz
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0575041978
• ISBN 13: 9780575041974
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304