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Zelmont Raines scored the winning touchdown in the Super Bowl and was an All-Pro receiver with a string of endorsement deals. Unfortunately, he also likes to smoke crack, quench his thirst with top-shelf brandy, and entertain the fine ladies who hang out with the stars. Three stints in drug rehab, a paternity suit (guilty), a hip injury, and some misguided investments in gangsta rap have Raines thinking the good times are over. Then he meets his match--sexually and amorally--in Wilma Wells, the lawyer for the Los Angeles Barons. She's scheming to rip off the mob-connected owner of the Barons and enlists the aid of the cash-hungry and always-horny Raines. She leads him into a netherworld where the between-the-lines violence of professional football pales in the face of automatic weapons and double crosses. Phillips, author of the acclaimed Ivan Monk series, takes elements of Jim Thompson (the ending), black-exploitation flicks (the profanity-fueled dialogue), and Penthouse magazine (the sex is anatomically correct) to create an over-the-top violent caper in which there is no honor, no respect, no love, and plenty of money. Anyone who liked George Pelecanos' King Suckerman is going to love this even-grittier take on many of the same themes. Wes Lukowsky
Sara Paretsky, author, Windy City Blues and the V. I. Warshawski Stories
"Gary Phillips is my kind of crime writer."
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Zelmont Raines scored the winning touchdown in the Super Bowl and was an All-Pro receiver with a string of endorsement deals. Unfortunately, he also likes to smoke crack, quench his thirst with top-shelf brandy, and entertain the fine ladies who hang out with the stars. Three stints in drug rehab, a paternity suit (guilty), a hip injury, and some misguided investments in gangsta rap have Raines thinking the good times are over. Then he meets his match--sexually and amorally--in Wilma Wells, the lawyer for the Los Angeles Barons. She's scheming to rip off the mob-connected owner of the Barons and enlists the aid of the cash-hungry and always-horny Raines. She leads him into a netherworld where the between-the-lines violence of professional football pales in the face of automatic weapons and double crosses. Phillips, author of the acclaimed Ivan Monk series, takes elements of Jim Thompson (the ending), black-exploitation flicks (the profanity-fueled dialogue), and Penthouse magazine (the sex is anatomically correct) to create an over-the-top violent caper in which there is no honor, no respect, no love, and plenty of money. Anyone who liked George Pelecanos' King Suckerman is going to love this even-grittier take on many of the same themes. Wes Lukowsky
Sara Paretsky, author, Windy City Blues and the V. I. Warshawski Stories
"Gary Phillips is my kind of crime writer."
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Inside This Book Citations: This book cites 3 books Explore: Citations | Concordance | Text Stats Key Phrases - CAPs: Little Hand, Zelmont Raines, Wilma Wells, Danny Deuce, Super Bowl (more) Browse Sample Pages: Front Cover | Copyright | Excerpt | Back Cover | Surprise Me! |
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It was hot as an Alabama outhouse when I got off the plane from Barcelona. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Little Hand, Zelmont Raines, Wilma Wells, Danny Deuce, Super Bowl, Coach Cannon, Los Angeles, Ellison Stadanko, Justice Department, Little Tito, Napoleon Graham,
It was hot as an Alabama outhouse when I got off the plane from Barcelona. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Little Hand, Zelmont Raines, Wilma Wells, Danny Deuce, Super Bowl, Coach Cannon, Los Angeles, Ellison Stadanko, Justice Department, Little Tito, Napoleon Graham,