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Mule, October 2011
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A Novel of Moving Weight
Mariner Books
October 2011
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Featuring: James; Kate
304 pages
ISBN: 0547576714
EAN: 9780547576718
Kindle: B005KLGU30
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Contemporary
From an award-winning “savvy storyteller”* comes a
page-turning, zeitgeist-capturing novel of a young couple
who turn to drug trafficking to make it through the
recession. James and Kate are golden children
of the late twentieth century, flush with opportunity. But
an economic downturn and an unexpected pregnancy send them
searching for a way to make do. A winter in the
mountains of California’s Siskiyou County introduces a
tempting opportunity. A friend grows prime-grade marijuana;
if James transports just one load from Cali to Florida,
he’ll pull down enough cash to survive for
months. James navigates life as a mule, then a
boss—from money-hungry friends to gun-toting drug lords,
from Sacramento to Tallahassee, from just making the weight
move cross-country to making thousands of dollars a day. The
risks keep rising, forcing him to the next criminal level. A
kidnapping, a shootout, a bank vault—it all culminates in a
swirl of action. Absorbing and timely, Mule
perfectly captures the anxieties of plunging into the
criminal world and of being a young person making do in a
moment when the American Dream you never had to believe
in—because it was handed to you, fully wrapped and ready to
go at the takeout window—suddenly vanishes from the menu. *Entertainment Weekly
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