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Saguaro Riptide
Norman Partridge
calibre (2.43.0) [http://calibre-ebook.com]
1997-05-02T00:00:00+00:00
<html><div><div><p><b><i>Welcome to the Saguaro Riptide Motel ...</i></b></p><div><div>It's a seedy little landlocked surf joint in the desolate Arizona desert. It's got frostbite-inducing A/C, an over-chlorinated swimming pool, and it's own junkyard. A veritable oasis, and the rates are low. And it's where the not-so-elite meet - for the biggest<i>dis</i>harmonic convergence since the invention of gunpowder. </div><div><br></div><div>Ex-light-heavyweight champion of the world Jack \"Battle-Axe\" Baddalach will be there. So will buttoned-down Muslim button man Woodrow Saad Muhammad. Sheriff Wyetta Earp is due as well - she of the black belt, bad manners and big boots to fill. And Major Kate Benteen, the bikini-clad war hero/prodigous surgeon/Olympic diver/champion horse racer/movie starlet, is in Room 23. </div><div><br></div><div>Between them, they've got lots of sticky, dirty, sometimes broken fingers in a fat two-million-dollar mafia pie. (Almost) everyone wants the cash. Everyone (except Jack) has a gun. And not even a special guest appearance by a shotgun-toting, robot-voiced, fanatical Elvis impersonator will keep things from gettng uh-huh-huh-<i>ugly</i> in Stoker-winner Norman Partridge's wild, pop-gonzo grotesque extraordi-<i>noir </i>extraordinaire!<i> </i></div><div><br></div><div>Surf's up!</div><div><br></div><div><b><i>The Critics Rave:</i></b></div><div><br></div><div>\"Partridge is the hottest new writer going.\" - Joe R. Lansdale</div><div><br></div><div>\"Nitro-laced, in-your-face fiction for the 90s.\" -<i>Locus</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div>\"Partridge writes like nobody else. He's a big talent and he's going to get a whole lot bigger.\" - Ed Gorman</div><div><br></div><div>\"Partridge writes with a rock beat ... crossed with hard-slammin' punk.\" - <i>Booklist</i></div></div><div><i><br></i></div><div>\"A major new talent.\" - Stephen King</div></div><div><br></div><div>\"The remarkable things here are the energy and non-stop flow of invention with which the author invests each scene and each character. There is not a scene in this book that sounds as if it might have been written by anyone other than Norman Partridge.\" - <i>Cemetery Dance</i></div></div></html>
Berkley Prime Crime
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Arizona
Action & Adventure
Mystery & Detective
Hard-Boiled
General
Fiction
Mafia
Novel
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