Annotation
"It's the fall of 1980, eight days before a presidential election that pits the downtrodden Jimmy Carter against the suspiciously sunny Ronald Reagan ("Are you better off than you were four years ago?"). In a quiet house in Spokane, Washington, Vince Camden wakes up at 1:59 A.M., pockets his weekly stash of stolen credit cards, and drops in on an all-night poker game with his low-life friends on his way to his witness-protection job dusting crullers at Donut Make You Hungry. This is the sum of Vince's new life: donuts, forged credit cards, marijuana smuggled in jars of volcanic ash, and a neurotic hooker girlfriend who dreams of being a real-estate agent." "But when a familiar face shows up in town, Vince realizes that no matter how far you think you've run from your past ... it's always close behind you. Over the course of the next unforgettable week, on the run from Spokane to New York's Lower East Side, Vince Camden will negotiate a maze of obsessive cops, eager politicians, and emerging mobsters, only to find that redemption might just exist in - of all places - a voting booth."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Awards
2006 Edgar Awards (Edgar Allan Poe Awards)
Characters
| Name | Hagen, Marty/Vince Camden |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Manager |
| Trait | Ex-criminal |
| Name | Scatieri, Ray "Sticks" |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Hit man |
| Genre | Crime Fiction Psychological Suspense |
| Topics | Criminals Witness Protection Program Life changes Transformations Organized crime Hit men |
| Setting | Spokane, Washington |