A World of Thieves: A Novel
by James Carlos Blake
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In 1928 New Orleans, eighteen-year-old Sonny LaSalle is a top prep student and champion amateur boxer -- and he venerates his fraternal twin uncles, Buck and Russell, armed robbers who love their profession. Sonny secretly believes that he, too, is a natural outlaw and persuades his uncles to take him on as a partner. But when a bank job goes bad, Sonny is sent to jail, where he unintentionally kills a policeman who is the son of the most feared lawman in Louisiana, widely known as "John show more Bones." After nine months in the infamous Angola penitentiary, Sonny makes a harrowing escape and manages to reunite with Buck and Russell. The carefree trio head out for the boomtowns of west Texas, where the money flows as freely as the oil, unaware that vengeance follows close behind, as the cool, calculating John Bones begins a relentless campaign to hunt down Sonny ... no matter what. show lessTags
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Handsome Harry is James Carlos Blake's eighth novel and ninth book of fiction. Among his literary honors are the Quarterly West Novella Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Chautauqua South Book Award, and the Southwest Book Award. He currently lives in Arizona.
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- People/Characters
- Sonny LaSalle; John Isley Bonham
- Important places
- Louisiana, USA; Texas, USA
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Romance
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PS3552 .L3483 .W67 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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- Languages
- English, French
- Media
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- ISBNs
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