Charlie Swift just pumped three .38-caliber bullets into a dead polar
bear in his taxidermist girlfriend's garage. But he's a gun monkey, and
no one can blame him for having an itchy trigger finger. Ever since he
drove down the Florida Turnpike with a headless body in the trunk of a
Chrysler, then took down four cops, Charlie's been running hard through
the sprawling sleaze of central Florida. And to make matters worse, he's
holding on to some crooked paperwork that a lot of people would like to
take off his hands. Now, with his boss disappeared and his friends
dropping like flies, Charlie has got his work cut out just to survive.
If he wants to keep the money and get the girl too, he's really going to
have to go ape...
Nominated for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, Gun Monkeys is a
fast, furious collage of wit and wise guys, violence and thrills--and a
full-throttle run through the dark side of the Sunshine State.