Short Money - Hardcover

Hautman, Pete

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684802112 ISBN 13: 9780684802114

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1995

Synopsis

Contemplating his dead-end job, his failed marriage, and his addiction to prescription drugs, ex-cop Joe Crow finds more trouble than he is prepared for when he takes cases involving a trophy elk's murder, a dual kidnapping, and a six-hundred pound tiger. 15,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Pete Hautman is the author of Godless, which won the National Book Award, and many other critically acclaimed books for teens and adults, including Blank Confession, All-In, Rash, No Limit, Invisible, and Mr. Was, which was nominated for an Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America. Pete lives in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Visit him at PeteHautman.com.

From Publishers Weekly:

This exhilarating prequel to Drawing Dead is by turns funny and soulful and always unpredictable. Joe Crow has scraped bottom: he's lost his job as a cop for handcuffing the chief's troublesome nephew to his truck; he's got a cocaine problem; his marriage is on the rocks; his loathsome brother-in-law has just set him up as a bodyguard for Dr. Nelson Bellweather, the town liposuctionist; and it's a particularly grim winter in Minnesota. Bellweather feels threatened by the sociopathic Murphy clan, three dysfunctional generations of hunters and their matriarch who run a game preserve where, for the right price, they will procure any animal a client wants to shoot. Crow, suspecting that Bellweather himself isn't entirely innocent, finds himself entangled in a web of misunderstandings, crimes, near-crimes, lapses in judgment and inspired slapstick as each set of bumbling crooks tries to outmaneuver the others. Hautman's dialogue sparkles, his plot hums, he's got a nicely complex sense of morality and he's a virtuoso when it comes to describing what it feels like to get punched. Best of all is Joe Crow: moving among nuts and crazies; comparing Alcoholics Anonymous and Cocaine Anonymous meetings (the coke addicts are funnier); breaking heads when necessary; and bonding with Milo, his cat. May he never learn that discretion is the better part of valor.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0684802112
• ISBN 13: 9780684802114
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288