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Mafia princess Angelina Amaro has only ever loved one man-and that lone affair was never consummated. Why not? Because her would-be lover, Sal Martucci, fled into the Witness Protection Program . after ratting out Angelina's father. When Sal is discovered working as a bartender in Key West, the wildly dysfunctional Amaro clan heads south-one member with love on her mind, the others with murder in their hearts. "Nearly impossible to put down," wrote The Cleveland Plain Dealer. " The book's] show more laugh-out-loud wit recall s] the best of Carl Hiaasen and] its quirky characters and tough-mindedness are like Elmore Leonard's." show lessTags
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Larry Shames does the greatest job of juxtaposing New Yorkers in Key West. He knows both better than they know themselves. This time Sal Martucci went into the witness protection program after he testified against the Big New York Boss, Paul Amaro. After facial surgery, he emerged as Ziggy Marx, a bar tender in Key West, Florida. But Angelina, Paul's daughter, still loves him and her life is not complete until she finds him again. Shames is so funny and so wonderful. If you've never read him, treat yourself.
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Laurence Shames was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1951, and graduated summa cum laude from NYU, in 1972. He became a journalist, and was published in magazines such as Playboy, Outside, Saturday Review, and Vanity Fair. In 1982, he was named Ethics columnist of Esquire, and also made a contributing editor. In 1991, Shames co- wrote a national show more non-fiction best-seller on the Mafia called Boss of Bosses, with two FBI agents. This success afforded him the opportunity to write fiction full-time, and he has since written ten Key West comic thrillers. He won the CWA Last Laugh Dagger Award for the funniest crime novel of 1995 with Sunburn. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Virgin Heat
- Original publication date
- 1997-03
- People/Characters
- Angelina Amaro; Paul Amaro; Ziggy Maxx (Sal Martucci); Uncle Louie
- Important places
- Key West, Florida, USA
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- 119
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- 272,886
- Reviews
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- (3.94)
- Languages
- English, German
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 14
- ASINs
- 3
