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In the hilarious, tradition of Elmore Leonard, former narcotics agent Joseph brings brilliantly to life the bungling misadventures of an upstanding citizen turned unwitting drug bitingly funny caper rich with action, irony, and originality.
All his life he has stayed in the comfort zone: never taking any chances, never breaking any rules. Now, Michael Goodman, bookkeeper, father, and widower, is about to change his ways. It starts in a Fort Lauderdale parking lot, when Michael changes a flat tire on his pink rental car. Suddenly, the mild-mannered accountant, desperately trying to find a job and pay his daughter's mounting medical bills, is in possession of a load of pure, undiluted heroin. With a white-hot bag of powder and scarcely a clue, Michael leads the cops, the DEA, and one very sexy woman on a wild-goose chase through the deadly world of New York City drug dealing. It's a wild ride that might make Michael rich and might even land him in love-as long as it doesn't kill him...
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There's so much death and gloom in the thriller world these days that a book daring to offer a relatively happy ending deserves special notice. It's not that nobody dies in former Federal Bureau of Narcotics agent Joseph T. Klempner's antic, upbeat new thriller--it's just that they're almost all bad guys. Aside from the fact that he's out of work, a recent widower, and the father of a 6-year-old daughter with mysterious, recurrent headaches, New York accountant Michael Goodman leads a charmed life. The spare tire on the car he rents while on a futile job hunt in Florida just happens to hold enough high-grade heroin to jump start anyone's life. When various law enforcement agencies ignore his attempts to turn it in, Goodman decides to unload it himself. Joseph Klempner's former employer probably won't find the dueling posses of bumbling drug agents as funny as other readers, but you can't please everybody. Klempner's last thriller, the bleaker but equally inventive Felony Murder, is available in paperback.
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"If you are looking for a straight-out, enjoyable story you won't find one better than this...a fine, engaging book." --ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
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- PublisherSt Martins Pr
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0312964463
- ISBN 13 9780312964467
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages384
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