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Description:
"Two things were meaningful to Slim Purdoux
-- his son and his chance to cultivate good books as an editor.
The world took his son from him and "market realities"
took the other. Now he's on a mission. A mission to get the dealer
who sold his kid the drugs that took his life. But this ain't the
kind of mission where saints guide you. For this kind of task you
need the likes of Wendell, a pimp and a player who is always one
step ahead of something, and his crew -- Red, a French Canadian
small-time crook, and Latesha and Dulcet, his girls. Purdoux --
and ex-addict and inmate, street savvy and gunwise -- picks them
up in his doomed cowboy existentialist slipstream and draws them
into his scheme. Not that Wendell's in this game on any friggin
mission of vengeance for angry daddies, he's in it to score the
big bucks that have always been just beyond his grasp -- and this
cowboy won't be standing in his way. Careening at break-neck speed
around corners of San Francisco where angels would fear to tread,
Spider Moon places its characters and the reader on the razor's
edge of reality. Shirley mixes a lunatic gunma, a mission of vengeance,
pimps, whores, chasing the dragon, bounty hunters, dealers, and
more with his unique perspective, talent and style to invent a new
kind of crime novel: gritty, real, wild, and heart-breakingly poignant."
--dustjacket
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