Treasure Coast

Treasure Coast

"A darkly humorous caper novel that offers strong entertainment," Publishers Weekly <br /> <br />A compulsive gambler goes to his sister's funeral on Florida's Treasure Coast and gets saddled with her loser-son, who is deep in debt to a vicious loan shark who sends a pair of sociopathic thugs to collect on the loan. But things go horribly awry...and soon the gambler finds himself in the center of an outrageous kidnapping plot involving a conman selling mail-order tombstones, a psychic who channels the dead, including the wife of a wealthy businessman. As if that wasn't bad enough, a killer hurricane is looming... <br /> <br />It's "Get Shorty" meets "No Country for Old Men" on a sunny Florida coast teeming with conmen and killers, the vapid and the vain, and where violent death is just a heartbeat away. <br /> <br />PRAISE FOR TOM KAKONIS <br /> <br />"Simply tremendous! Tom Kakonis’ writing is on a level with Elmore Leonard," Chicago Tribune <br /> <br />"Kakonis is a sharp new gambler in the literary crap game -- he just takes the pot." The New York Times <br /> <br />"Aptly compared to Elmore Leonard, Kakonis builds exquisite tension...steamy with a high-rent, low-life atmosphere...and an unforgettable cast." Publishers Weekly <br /> <br />"A cold-deck nightmare of high-stakes peril," Daniel Woodrell, author of "Winter's Bone." <br /> <br />"A sure narrative voice, a richly shaded hero and heroine, nightmare-vivid villains, and a plot paved with switchbacks and big curves add up to classy, if brutal, crime entertainment: this one cooks," Kirkus Reviews <br /> <br />"Tom Kakonis is a master of the low-life novel. Nobody does it better." Ross Thomas