Truman's twentysomething friend Jackleen Canaday has bought the car of her dreams. But the ink's hardly dry on the contract before she realizes it's a lemon, and the suave huckster who sold it to her refuses to take it back. Much as she loathes the man, she's shocked when she discovers his bloody body in the back of a black 'Vette. She's even more shocked when the cops arrive and there's no body to be found.Enter Truman, who hates to see a friend cheated and hates even more to pass up a juicy puzzle. In a roller-coaster tale cast with a motley crew of big-time drug dealers, small-time seam artists, and the crowd that gathers daily for the blue-plate special at the Fountain of Youth Hotel, Truman follows a twisted trail that leads him from the dealership to biker bars to Tampa's tawdry strip joints...and, quite possibly, to his own demise.
Truman's twentysomething friend Jackleen Canaday has bought the car of her dreams. But the ink's hardly dry on the contract before she realizes it's a lemon, and the suave huckster who sold it to her refuses to take it back. Much as she loathes the man, she's shocked when she discovers his bloody body in the back of a black 'Vette. She's even more shocked when the cops arrive and there's no body to be found.Enter Truman, who hates to see a friend cheated and hates even more to pass up a juicy puzzle. In a roller-coaster tale cast with a motley crew of big-time drug dealers, small-time seam artists, and the crowd that gathers daily for the blue-plate special at the Fountain of Youth Hotel, Truman follows a twisted trail that leads him from the dealership to biker bars to Tampa's tawdry strip joints...and, quite possibly, to his own demise.