Summary
Back in the old days, Axel Speeter and his buddies made their living as gamblers. Now 73, Axel owns a taco concession, has two attractive women working for him (his sometime lover, Sophie Roman, and her spectacularly endowed daughter, Carmen), and has squirreled away seven coffee cans containing $260,000 in cash. When Carmen, her skinhead, ex-con boyfriend, Dean, and Dean's peculiar friends set their sights on those coffee cans, surprises aplenty follow. A "New York Times" Notable Book of 1996.
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"Another riotous carnival of larcenous fun a la Elmore Leonard-this time set in and around a real carnival....Joyfully loony..."
-- Kirkus
"...frighteningly funny..." -- Marilyn Stasio
-- New York Times Book Review
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published date: 1997
Size: 4.25 x 7 inches
Weight: 0.35 pounds
Publisher's Notes
Seventy-three-year-old ex-poker player Axel Speeter has one more winner-take-all hand to play with a pair of crooks who are after the $260,000 he keeps squirreled away in his room at the Motel 6. A "New York Times Book Review" Notable Book for 1996.
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