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The Paperboy by Pete Dexter

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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
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THE PAPERBOY
By: Pete Dexter

Delta
January 1996
On Sale: January 1, 1996
336 pages
ISBN: 0385315724
EAN: 9780385315722
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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 freeβ€”and meetβ€”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...