Whiplash River

<p>Like Carl Hiaasen Berney delights in the cartoonish. Like Elmore Leonard he can drive a plot. What sets him apart is how well he evokes love making the romance...as compelling as the mystery.<br />--<em>Boston Globe</em></p><p>Lou Berney immediately earned a seat of honor at the mystery masters' table with his crackling caper novel <em>Gutshot Straight</em>--a lightning-fast fiendishly clever suspenser that screamed for a sequel. And here it is. Former professional wheel man Charles Shake Bouchon is back living in the Caribbean paradise of Belize with his lawless past far behind him--until a gunshot tears through his beachside restaurant and he's on the run again. A twisting tale filled with lawmen con men and hit men; a beautiful but deadly FBI agent; and a murderous thug named Baby Jesus <em>Whiplash River</em> recalls the best of the off-the-wall crime fiction impresarios--Elmore Leonard Carl Hiaasen James W. Hall Robert Ferrigno Tim Dorsey--while establishing its own unique orbit in the noir universe.<br /></p>