Sweet and Vicious: A Novel

ISBN: 0385335695

Author: Schickler, David

Condition: New

Fascinating and hilarious, relentlessly clever, and truly haunting are all phrases that have been used to describe David Schicklers unique talent. And all apply to this brash, brilliant novel featuring two of the most memorable characters in contemporary fiction: Grace McGlone and Henry Dante.Sexy and willful, Grace McGlone is saving herself for the right man. When Henry Dante pulls into the small Wisconsin town where she works at the car wash, she instantly knows hes the one. He knows it too. But when Grace discovers Henry has The Planets-a stolen set of famous Spanish diamonds-stashed in the back seat of his truck, shes having none of it. Shes trying for heaven, and the ill-gotten jewels must go. And so they do, in a race across the American landscape from Chicago to Yellowstone, purusued by a savage gangster obsessed by the diamonds he thought were his.Passionate, criminal, comical, and possessing all the dark enchantment of a fairy tale, Sweet and Vicious is a modern love story shot straight from the heart of David Schicklers miraculous imagination.