Powder Burn Author:William D. Montalbano, Carl Hiaasen Architect Chris Meadows has the bad luck to see an old girlfriend get hit by a car full of drugland hitmen. He has the worse luck to see the face of her murderers. Because in a town as violent as Miami, a witness doesn't stand a chance - -especially when the cops who ought to be protecting him are more interested in dangling him as live bait. — F... more »or those who know too little, it is a bland winter playground. For those who know too much, it is America's 'Open City' -- a feverish world of the perpetually high where excess and death are part of the everyday scene... where loyalty can be bought for a plastic bag of paradise... where private armies make secret war in a never-ending struggle for power.
Chris Meadows knows too much to be allowed to live. His only option is to find out even more -- and find it out fast!« less