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Also by Pete Dexter:

Spooner, November 2010
Trade Size (reprint)
Spooner, October 2009
Hardcover
Paper Trails, February 2007
Hardcover
The Paperboy, January 1996
Paperback

The Paperboy
Pete Dexter

Delta
January 1996
On Sale: January 1, 1996
336 pages
ISBN: 0385315724
EAN: 9780385315722
Paperback
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Mystery

The sun was rising over Moat County, Florida, when Sheriff Thurmond Call was found on the highway, gutted like an alligator. A local redneck was tried, sentenced, and set to fry.

Then Ward James, hotshot investigative reporter for the Miami Times, returns to his rural hometown with a death row femme fatale who promises him the story of the decade. She's armed with explosive evidence, aiming to free—and meet—her convicted "fiancÚ."

With Ward's disillusioned younger brother Jack as their driver, they barrel down Florida's back roads and seamy places in search of The Story, racing flat out into a shocking head-on collision between character and fate as truth takes a back seat to headline news...

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