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Its tough being a small-time hustler in Key West, FL. When this hustler is being beaten by a cop, John Deal steps in to stop it, but it is only a temporary rescue: the hustler turns up dead only two days later. The cops are claiming ignorance and the locals arent saying a word. Could the dead man be somehow connected to a seventy-year-old tale of piracy, murder, and greed? No one knows what really happened on that storm-swept night. But something about the legend and the recent murder are show more haunting John Deal to the bone. show lessTags
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This was my first novel by Standiford and I quite enjoyed it. It's written in the John D. McDonald style and this good author knows how to tell a story. It could have been a much longer and more interesting book but his "stick to the plot" style moves the book at a brisk and interesting pace.
I will be reading more books by this author. I'm told his history books are very good so I will be reading those also.
I will be reading more books by this author. I'm told his history books are very good so I will be reading those also.
Miami construction contractor John Deal is in Key West to discuss a project when he stumbles into a mystery involving a different kind of treasure, but one that still inspires murder.
Definately a guy's novel. A killing in every page. A good mindless read for the beach. Bought it at a second hand bookshop in the Keys.
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Les Standiford is the director of the creative writing program at Florida International University. He has lived in Miami since 1981. Les Standiford is a historian and author. He has been awarded the Frank O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, a Florida Individual Artist Fellowship in Fiction, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in show more Fiction, and belongs to the Associated Writing Programs, Mystery Writers of America, and the Writers Guild. Standiford's main non-fiction writings include: Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction that Changed America; The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits; Washington Burning: How a Frenchman's Vision for Our Nation's Capital Survived Congress, the Founding Fathers, and the Invading British Army; Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America; and Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean. The last title was on the New York Times bestseller list in 2014. His fiction novels include: Done Deal; Raw Deal; Black Mountain; Bone Key; and Havana Run. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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