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    Miami Blues

    Written by Charles Willeford

    Narrated by Paul Birchard

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    About this audiobook

    Ex-con Freddy 'Junior' Frenger lands in Miami with three stolen wallets and plans for a new life of crime, and leaves the airport with a snatched suitcase and a corpse behind him. Homicide detective Hoke Moseley is soon chasing Junior and his hooker girlfriend through the seedy suburban sprawl of Miami in a game of hide and seek that will leave Hoke beaten and robbed - but determined to get his man.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateAug 7, 2014
    ISBN9781471271175
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    • 5/5
      I first read Miami Blues sometime in the eighties - before the 1990 movie - but rereading it now thirty years later, it's hard to read it without picturing the characters as portrayed in the movie. That there is the power of cinema. It's still an awesome book even rereading it and knowing full well what's going to happen. It is strikingly different in tone and affect from Willeford's earlier pulp works so much so that you wonder how that could be. What's really remarkable about Miami Blues and its sequels (and no I haven't read the secret unpublished manuscript of the original dark nasty sequel) is how could Willeford really became at storytelling. Each page and even each paragraph tells a whole story. There are oddities that he throws in seemingly effortlessly like the Hare Krishna dying of a broken finger or the casual mentions of incest. And then there are these amazing characters like the dimwitted prostitute who wakes up each day as wide-eyed and innocent as the day she was born. Or the psychopathic killer who decides to become her platonic husband. Or the homicide detective who is forever losing his chompers (dentures) and lives in a fleabag hotel because he sends every other paycheck for alimony. The actual plot plays second fiddle to all these classic scenes like the ex-con and the cop having dinner together or Junior going to "work" at the mall. Some of what takes place is the gallows humor of the police station but it's do funny you almost forget the one-man crime wave Junior is. An absolutely breathtaking work.
    • 3/5
      A man is released from prison in California, and decides to try his luck in Miami. All predictions are that he will not stay out of prison for long. A down on his luck policeman in Miami is about to get in his way.Miami Blues was not a bad book, but it isn't for me. Too much grit, a police procedural sort of, the viewpoint altered between Hoke Mosely, the pathetic policeman, and the psychopath. In my opinion, too much time was spent with the psychopath and the policeman didn't have much about him which made me care. There was no mystery to be solved, just a lot of time spent in the gutter.The author did a good job of portraying a psychopathic personality.
    • 4/5
      This is probably the third time I've read this book (since I decided to read the Hoke Mosely series in order) and I can say each time I've read it, I have thoroughly enjoyed it. While the cover quotes Elmore Leonard as saying "Noboy writes a better crime novel", I'm afraid that honor will always be held by Mr. Leonard himself. Even so, Charles Willeford ranks in the top five ALL TIME writers of crime noir fiction.
    • 3/5
      Getting into the mind and persona of a vicious sicko was not much fun for me.
    • 5/5
      This was made into a great movie with Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alec Baldwin, and i think Robert Forster as Moseley. I've only read the first chapter so far, but I think this is gonna be good. A really good movie, with a plot that is, is usually related to a really good book.
    • 4/5
      A hard-boiled detective story that features Hoke Moseley in the first in a four book series. Containing off-beat humour we get to follow both sides of a story that pits Hoke against ex-con and psychopath Freddy 'Junior' Frenger. Fresh from a stint in San Quentin, Junior arrives in Miami for a fresh start and has made his first kill before he leaves the airport. He didn't like the finger which the Hare Krishna was prodding at him so he broke it. He died of shock soon after.I'd describe the tone of the book at being somewhere in the middle of Jim Thompson and Carl Hiaasen so if you think you can handle that then it's a pretty decent read.
    • 5/5
      Perfect. Very few can write like Willeford could. He gets you into the heads of his characters and makes them real human beings, with that mix of good and bad all of us have. Fatalistic, sad, funny - just like life. Freddy Frenger is one of the great villains ever.
    • 5/5
      The first installment in the witty, worldly, sunny-noir Hoke Moseley series. Made into an equally successful movie.