Trap Line

ISBN: 0375700692

Author: Hiaasen, Carl

Condition: New

From the bestselling author of Bad Monkey and Razor Girl and Bill Montalbano comes this compelling thriller set in Key West on the southern most end of America.With its dozens of outlying islands and the native Conchs historically low regard for the law, Key West is a smugglers paradise. All thats needed are the captains to run the contraband. Breeze Albury is one of the best fishing captains on the Rock, and hes in no mood to become the Machines delivery boy. So the Machine sets out to persuade him. It starts out by taking away Alburys livelihood. Then it robs him of his freedom. But when the Machine threatens Alburys son, the washed-out wharf rat turns into a raging, sea-going vigilante.In Trap Line, Hiaasen and Montalbano pit a handful of scruffy Conchs against an armada of drug lords, crooked cops, and homicidal marine lowlife. The result is a crime novel of dizzying velocity, filled with wrenching plot twists, grimily authentic characters, and enough local color for a hundred tropical shirts. Its the Key West the tourist brochures wont tell you about: a place as crooked as Al Capones Chicago and as irredeemably violent as Wyatt Earps Tombstone.