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Simon & Schuster, December 2008
Trade Paperback, 320 pages
ISBN-10: 1416566619
ISBN-13: 9781416566618
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Chapter 1
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The journey begins when Charlie Curtis travels to New Orleans on a deathbed assignment from his father. The mission? To find his father's half brother, James Joseph Pelikan, a criminal ringleader of the French Quarter from midnight until dawn in places where tourists seldom venture. Barely off the train, Charlie witnesses the murder of one of Pelikan's cronies at the hand of a woman whose only adornment is a fishhook through her lower lip. And so begins acclaimed thriller writer David Lozell Martin's carnival ride to enlightenment, the ensuing caper revealing just how far a man will go to find redemption.
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Chapter 1"David Lozell Martin's Pelikan infuses the caper thriller with strains of pure-D American gothic, New Orleans-style, French Quarter-style, in a pitch of high comic singul arity. It's an amazing and unputdownable novel."
-- Stephen Hunter, author of Dirty White Boys and Time to Hunt
"Martin's New Orleans makes me real glad I'm from Toledo, Ohio."
-- P.J. O'Rourke, author of On the Wealth of Nations
"Martin's talents in the saucy lowlife-comedy genre are abundant."
-- Richard Bernstein, The New York Times
David Lozell Martin's Books
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Losing EverythingAfter over thirty years of writing highly acclaimed novels Martin tells his own story which is more unbelievable than anything he's ever conjured up.Read More
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Our American KingWhen America fell, she fell hard. Now chaos and calamity fill the vacuum left by a collapsing federal government. The strong and the armed prey on the...Read More
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The Crying Heart TattooAn international cult classic and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, The Crying Heart Tattoo follows the unlikely romance between a young man...Read More -
Crazy LoveDavid Martin has proved to be an unusually versatile writer, both of acclaimed thrillers like Lie to Me and of love stories like The Crying Heart...Read More
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Facing RushmoreThe St. Louis Memorial Arch, 630 feet of gleaming stainless steel, twice the height of the Statue of Liberty, built to withstand earthquakes, has been...Read More
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