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Chris Meadows is a successful young Miami architect on the fast track. He is departing from a casual meeting with an old girlfriend when she is accidentally struck and killed by a car full of drug land hit men. Unfortunately for Chris, he sees the driver and the driver sees him. Chris's quiet life takes an adventurous and dangerous turn as he is tracked down and hunted by Colombian drug lords who want him dead.
POWDER BURN is the first of novels co-authored by Hiaasen and Montalbano. An investigative reporter at the Miami Herald at the time they were written, Hiaasen's background knowledge of Miami's drug problems provides for a richly plotted story line. His budding ability for plot twists, fine ear for dialogue and the ability to give us an ending with a wickedly satisfying twist are evident in this early work. POWDER BURN is a more conventional mystery, however, without the hilarity and ribald characters whom we've come to enjoy and expect in his more recent mysteries.
Miami was under siege by Columbia drug runners and the human refuse that flooded South Florida when Fidel Castro emptied his jails. POWDER BURN harks of a period early in the drug wars that still plague our country. It stands bravely on its own to first time Hiaasen readers as a taut, fast paced mystery. It will be especially enjoyable to fans to observe vintage Hiaasen at work.
--- Reviewed by Roz Shea
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