Easter weekend in Macon, Georgia: Connie Hotlzclaw is a
good-hearted ex-boxer and small-time loser who can't keep out of
trouble. He dreams of carrying his girlfriend, Rita Estes, a pretty
Waffle House waitress, away to a ranch in Montana and a new start,
away from the hamburger grease and petty hoods. His brother, Carl,
though, has other ideas. He wants a big score, and he convinces
pliable Connie to join in a kidnapping--an easy mark, a sure thing,
a rich local college kid whose mother, of course, will do anything
to get him back. All goes well, the boy's mother waits in a nearby
hotel with the ransom money, and for a moment it seems Connie may
get his dream of Rita and a Montana ranch. That's when the local
mob muscles in on the job. Tommy, a murderous gangster and crazy as
only a pure American product can be, brings in a couple of his
strong boys to up the stakes, and a final showdown over the ransom
money develops at Rose Hill Cemetery-for Connie a place of
violence, death, and maybe a new beginning. In this gritty novel of
loss, violence, and redemption, a distinguished American poet
explores the dark world last seen in the novels of James M. Cain,
where death lurks everywhere and a new beginning is always just out
of reach.
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