The much-loved comic thriller by the author of the Edgar
Award–winning The Butcher’s Boy is now, by popular demand,
back in print, featuring a new Introduction by bestselling
author Carl Hiaasen.
When Leroy “Chinese” Gordon breaks into a professor’s lab
at the University of Los Angeles, he’s 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 chaos—Los 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 CIA’s middle name is, after all,
Intelligence. Enlivening the mix are Gordon’s beautiful
girlfriend, Margaret, his temperamental cat, Dr. Henry
Metzger, and Metzger’s friend, an enormous half-wild dog
with huge teeth.
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