This novel featuring professional fishing lure tier and part-time detective Thorn (last seen in Off the Chart, 2003) begins on the evening of the first Cassius Clay-Sonny Liston fight, in Miami Beach, Florida, back in February 1964, when two Cuban boys are orphaned in their own home by assassins. Those tykes, Carlos and Snake Morales, are subsequently adopted by Miami’s powerful mayor. Decades later, when the aging ex-mayor needs their help, Carlos and Snake are more that willing to comply. But the assignment--to retrieve an incriminating photo snapped during the Clay-Liston bout--will put them at violent odds with Thorn, as he fights to protect both the former cop who owns one last copy of that snapshot and that man’s daughter, who happens to be Thorn’s inamorata, Alexandra “Alex” Rafferty.“Magic City,” writes Miller, “is a tale of political intrigue and visceral revenge, set in the seductive swelter of Vietnam War-era Miami. It’s a kinetic book that moves with the power and speed of a cigarette boat slicing through Biscayne Bay.”
You can read his whole January Magazine review here.
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