The much-loved comic thriller by the author of the Edgar Awardโwinning The Butcherโs Boy is now, by popular demand, back in print, featuring a new Introduction by bestselling author Carl Hiaasen.
When Leroy โChineseโ Gordon breaks into a professorโs lab at the University of Los Angeles, heโs after some pharmaceutical cocaine, worth plenty of money. Instead, he finds the papers the professor has compiled for the CIA, which include a blueprint for throwing a large city into chaos. But how is the CIA to be persuaded to pay a suitable ransom, unless of course someone actually uses the plan to throw a large city into chaosโLos Angeles, for instance? Assigned to cope with the crisis and restore the peace, veteran agent Ben Porterfield steps onto the scene to remind us that the CIAโs middle name is, after all, Intelligence. Enlivening the mix are Gordonโs beautiful girlfriend, Margaret, his temperamental cat, Dr. Henry Metzger, and Metzgerโs friend, an enormous half-wild dog with huge teeth.
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