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I first read the print version of this book and others by Laurence Shames in the early '90s. $14.95 a month after 30 day trial. He meets retired Mafioso Bert the Shirt, who tells him he should look into the local traditions, perhaps get his money from the sea—and Joey starts thinking about the Florida Straits as a moneymaker. When Island Frigate advertising rep Suki Sperakis decides to write an exposé on the Key West black market, she is strangled and left for dead in the trunk of a car sinking slowly into the Gulf of Mexico.

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Bargain hunters rejoice! For a second division conman looking for the big score, Key West has everything New Yorker Joey Goldman has ever dreamed of: sun, surf, sleaze and more scams per mile of waterfront than any crime centre on earth. Noticeably used book. But they have something in common: vanity license plates that read BIG AL. Retrieve credentials. He’ll do anything to help his master, the retired mafioso Bert the Shirt, and his friends - especially the beautiful Rita, with whom Nacho is smitten from the very first time she reaches down to scratch his ears.

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Top-notch suspense and "killer" comedy merge in this rollicking national best seller filled with funky characters, resounding dialogue, and inappropriately named "wise" guys. While Sandra gets another bank-teller's job, at half what she earned in Queens, Joey's money runs low. Get the picture? His writing is beautiful.

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But Key West's numbers racket is all sewed up by the Cubans; sex is weirdly ridden with transvestites; garbage trucking is under a city contract; and at each attempt to break in, Joey is humiliated. I didn’t find any of the situations particularly comical and as a result I didn’t find any of the characters particularly endearing.

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To help, we provided some of our favorites. On best-seller lists all over the country with his witty cynicism and delightfully dark humor, Laurence Shames writes thrillers that his fans endearingly classify as great “Florida noir.” In the tradition of Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen, he gives character to the inhabitants of Florida’s steamy underbelly. Good. Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited, Baker & Taylor, Inc., or by their respective licensors, or by the publishers, or by their respective licensors.

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By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's. I had already read the book so I already knew it was great fun, well written with a good story, enjoyable characters and a great evocation of Key West. The only trouble is, Joey's half-brother got there first. The books are very entertaining, with some recurring characters and some new ones. All rights reserved. Categories: Fiction: Poolside at their motel, the Fab Four fell into conversation with a snappy-dressing local named Bert the Shirt, who listened as the band worked out a harmony to the most beautiful song he’d ever heard...and wouldn’t hear again for over half a century. Joey decides to give it all up, move permanently to Key West with his girlfriend Sandra, and then take over a few scams—maybe numbers, prostitution, garbage trucking, something that will not give him the creepy feeling of going legit. Brit Bennett

He has won a week in Key West for his sales record. She writes about Kentucky with lush descriptions of the landscape and tender respect for the townspeople, most of whom are poor, uneducated, and grateful for the chance to learn.

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She wants to own a Sno-Cone truck at the beach in Key West.

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