Category: Fiction: Mystery & Suspense
Copyright/published Year: 2002 by William Morrow
ISBN: 0060008725
Binding: hardcover
Description:
Dennis Lenahan the high diver would tell people that if you put a ì
fifty-cent piece on the floor and looked down at it, that's what ì
the tank looked like from the top of that eighty-foot steel ì
ladder.
Dennis is a daredevil and the girls love him. Things are going ì
along okay with his gig at the Tishomingo Lodge & Casino in ì
Tunica, Mississippi, "the Casino Capital of the South," until the ì
day he looks down from the high-dive platform and witnesses a mob ì
hit -- Dixie style. The killer looks up and says, "Let's see you ì
dive." Suddenly, being a daredevil has lost its kick.
Turns out there was a second witness, Robert Taylor from Detroit, ì
who carries a picture of his great-granddaddy's lynching along ì
with a gun in a briefcase and listens to Marvin Pontiac while ì
cruising the back roads of Mississippi in his black Jaguar. ì
Robert works for a man from up north who has come to play General ì
Grant in a Civil War battle reenactment, but like Dennis, Robert ì
has a death-defying act of his own: he's sleeping with his boss's ì
wife.
Thirty-seven miles from Tunica is the famous "crossroads" where ì
Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil for a style of funky ì
blues that had never been heard before. Robert Taylor is about to ì
introduce Dennis to a "crossroads" of his own. He has a secret ì
agenda for taking on the Cornbread Cosa Nostra and wants Dennis ì
in on it.
To complicate matters are the women. Some are dressed in hoop ì
skirts, and all of them have plans of their own. Vernice lures ì
Dennis with the whitest thighs he's ever seen. Diane comes to do ì
a story on him and wants to take him to Memphis. And still ì
another comes along to give Dennis the surprise of his life. But ì
it's the scams Robert Taylor plays, drawing Dennis into his game, ì
that move the action through all kinds of unexpected twists and ì
turns.
This is a used book and is in Good condition.
Additional condition description
2002 hardcover. Lightly read. Minimal wear to dust jacket. Clean and unmarked book. NO remainder markings.
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