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Psycho mama"s boy Teddy Magyk has a serious jones for the Miami cop who put him away--but he wants to hit Vincent Mora where it really hurts before killing him. So when a beautiful Puerto Rican hooker takes a swan dive from an Atlantic City high-rise, and Vincent naturally shows up to investigate the questionable death of his "special friend," Teddy figures he's got his prey just where he wants him.
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Classical in form, cool, resolved and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Elmore Leonard
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 264
- Publisher
- William Morrow & Co., Arbor House, PHOENIX (ORIO)
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- Spanish, Swedish, English
- ISBN
- 9780816138340
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“THE NIGHT VINCENT WAS SHOT he saw it coming.”
Elmore John Leonard Jr. was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. His earliest novels, published in the 1950s, were Westerns, but he went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures. *--Wikipedia*
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