Bahama Heat - Hardcover

Barry Estabrook

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0727843559 ISBN 13: 9780727843555

Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd, 1992

Synopsis

Determined to save his impoverished Bahamian mission school, Reverend Miles Farnsworth uses the shipment of cocaine accidently delivered to him to make a quick buck, and he becomes inadvertantly drawn into the world of drug lords and hired killers

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From Kirkus Reviews:

A viciously funny caper in which a cocaine shipment goes astray and is furiously tracked by the Saviour Network management team, who need it in order to turn ``Celestial City: A Prospectus'' into a reality; by hard-drinking (and gorgeous) Stormy Lake, whose boyfriend, Bingo, stole it out from under the noses of mobster goons Fat Boy and Raul (and was then killed by them); by the Reverend Miles Farnsworth, who needs it to support his Bahamian mission school, as well as to marry an organ-playing schoolteacher (actually an undercover federal agent); and by mafioso bigwig Montano, who sets up separate deals with each of the others to reclaim the million-dollar stash. Is the cocaine aboard the Come to Jesus Cruiser? Was it on the plane that landed in the tomato fields north of Miami? Will the Reverend ditch the teacher for Stormy? Who's really double-crossing whom? With a plot that hops around more than a Mexican jumping bean, first-novelist Estabrook delivers a caper worthy of vintage Westlake, marred only by a gratuitous death or two. Feisty, goofy, and unputdownable. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

From Publishers Weekly:

Food editor Estabrook's fast-paced first novel is generally amusing, occasionally touching and always entertaining. Rev. Miles Farnsworth has a problem: the Vale, the small mission he runs for the Savior Network in the Bahamas, is in serious financial trouble. Thanks to his brother Ira's bad investments, Miles must come up with $500,000 to save the mission. Stormy Lake, a charming but quirky expatriate American, has been left a map by her murdered lover disclosing the location of approximately $1 million's worth of cocaine. But the drugs have already been found by a mildly retarded young man. He believes the coke is flour and has hidden it for Miles who, he expects, can sell it to save the Vale. Enter "Fat Boy," a Bahamian policeman willing to use violence to get his hands on the contraband. Series of double- and triple-crosses, a few surprises at the end and a cast of offbeat but likable characters add up to a thoroughly engaging tale.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0727843559
• ISBN 13: 9780727843555
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320