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Penzler Pick, July 2001: Tom Coffey has a genius for creating antiheroes. His first book, The Serpent Club, featured an all-too-human reporter named Ted Lowe. In this his second book, he has created a public relations man, Garrett Doherty, who exhibits all the character and decency of, well, the people next door. Based in Miami, Garrett is an honest enough man, given his job, and is married to a good woman. His parent company in New York is proud of the job he is doing. But at a company party he begins to get into a situation that will spiral out of control and will not end until he betrays everyone and everything that he holds dear. Standing at the bar, Garrett strikes up a conversation with a man who is as big a Yankees fan as he is. After discussing the pitching talents of El Duque, the stranger hands him a card, but it is not until he gets to work the next morning and is congratulated for doing a great job at the party that Garrett realizes he was talking to an important man. His company has been trying to do business with Ernesto Rodriguez for a long time, and now Rodriguez is willing to do that business providing Garrett is the man assigned to him. Without really knowing what exactly Rodriguez does, Garrett makes an appointment with him and is soon up to his neck in compromising situations. Rodriguez is a land developer and, through him, Garrett meets Frank Hedges and his wife, Magdalena, around whom Garrett develops a rich fantasy life--which we get to share. Six people's lives will collide over a short period of time. Not all of them will survive and those who do will never be the same. Coffey's writing, which is superb, can best be described as "edgy." --Otto PenzlerRead More

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  • Product Description

    From Florida's steamy underbelly comes the blistering new novel from the bestselling author of The Serpent Club, the harrowing thriller that Publishers Weekly called "fast-paced, shocking, and hypnotic." Now Tom Coffey shifts coasts and dives into the darkest human desires -- sex, drugs, revenge, and bloodshed -- behind the glistening façade of the Sunshine State.

    There is a man, I'm making love to his wife. If he's still alive, I'm sure he's not happy about it. But Ernesto may have killed him -- which would be lucky for me, wouldn't it?

    Illicit thoughts run incessantly through the mind of Garrett Doherty, a Miami-based PR executive who is jeopardizing his marriage, his career, and possibly his life because of his fascination with a mysterious beauty named Magdalena. Their affair and his shady business dealings have connected Doherty to notorious Cuban expatriate and land developer Ernesto Rodriguez, a man whose long associations with U.S. intelligence agencies and the international underworld have placed him in the center of the anti-Castro movement and a far-reaching cocaine empire.

    Rodriguez wants Doherty to help him promote Tierra Grande, a gated playground for millionaires, and his final shot at a legitimate legacy. As Doherty's obsession with Magdalena consumes more and more of him, he is pulled into the violent dealings and double-crosses that just may be the handiwork of his alluring temptress. Will Doherty follow his fixation to a new life...or to a cold grave?

    Taking readers from the enticing sands of South Beach to the lonely swamps of the Everglades -- where a man could vanish and become alligator food before anyone knows he is missing -- Coffey's mazelike, Hitchcockian tale of a man's lust for a femme fatale builds a modern crime story around the oldest sins in the book -- adultery and murder. In the tradition of Elmore Leonard, Carl Hiaasen, and Edna Buchanan comes an outstanding addition to steamy Floridian noir. Raw with brutal retribution, ignited with passion, Miami Twilight is guaranteed to leave you breathless.

  • 0671028294
  • 9780671028299
  • Tom Coffey
  • 27 August 2001
  • Simon & Schuster
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 304
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