Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Mangrove squeeze, paperback/mr laurence shames

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Key West seduces people--then asks them to leave in the morning.

Take Aaron Katz.

He chucked his NY nine-to-five to restore the Mangrove Arms, a rotting wreck of a guest house.

Suki Sperakis, aspiring journalist, sees opportunity in Florida, too, though in the meantime she's peddling ad space for a third-rate freebie paper.

Then she stumbles upon a nefarious plot revolving around a handsome Russian, his string of T-shirt shops.

and his real business, which happens to involve plutonium.

It's the scoop of a lifetime.

But who's lifetime? With the Russian mafia on her trail, freewheeling Suki is soon trying to stay one step ahead of the goons and the guns--and leaving in her wake a mix of sunken Cadillacs, abandoned Cold War missile silos, empty vodka bottles, and the occasional corpse.

With only the mild-mannered Aaron, his slightly demented father Sam, and an old gangster named Bert the Shirt as allies, can she possibly survive the squeeze?About the Author: Laurence Shames has been a New York City taxi driver, lounge singer, furniture mover, lifeguard, dishwasher, gym teacher, and shoe salesman.

Having failed to distinguish himself in any of those professions, he turned to writing full-time in 1976 and has not done an honest day's work since.

His basic laziness notwithstanding, Shames has published more than twenty books and hundreds of magazine articles and essays.

Best known for his critically acclaimed series of Key West novels, he has also authored non-fiction and enjoyed considerable though largely secret success as a collaborator and ghostwriter.

Shames has penned four New York Times bestsellers.

These have appeared on four different lists, under four different names, none of them his own.

This might be a record.

Born in Newark, New Jersey in 1951, to chain-smoking parents of modest means but flamboyant emotions, Shames graduated summa cum laude from NYU in 1972 and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.

Shortly after finishing college, he began annoying editors by s.