Ex-used-car salesman Harold Dodge returns to LA to help a friend collect on the life insurance policy for her murdered husband. Their quest for the money is detoured into the Port of LA and into a sub-culture of car brokers, scrap-metal dealers, car thieves and homicide cops.
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Overflowing with diamond-sharp dialogue, and meaty, believable characters...the street-smart cred of vintage Elmore Leonard...an enthralling and hugely entertaining read (Maxim)
The literary grandchild of Elmore Leonard...genuine hardboiled American (Time Out)
Reed gets it on to the page alive and kicking, the way you scoop out an oyster. Salty and nourishing: unquestionably a tonic (Literary Review)
Fans of Carl HiaaSen, take note (Publishers Weekly)
Reed returns with 'the street-smart cred of vintage Elmore Leonard' (Maxim), for a second captivating, wickedly observed car-dealing caper.
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Seller: Sperry Books, Rollinsford, NH, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Thorndike Press 1999 Large Print hardcover, ex library w/ interior stamp uncirculated, fine pictorial boards, tight binding, clean unmarked text. Seller Inventory # LhcF122182