ISBN: | 9780060008727 |
Publisher: | William Morrow & Company |
Published: | 1 February, 2002 |
Format: | Hardcover |
Language: | English |
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Dennis Lenahan the high diver would tell people that if you put a fifty-cent piece on the floor and looked down at it, thats what the tank looked like from the top of that eighty-foot steel ladder. Dennis is a daredevil and the girls love him. Things are going along okay with his gig at the Tishomingo Lodge & Casino in Tunica, Mississippi, "the Casino Capital of the South," until the day he looks down from the high-dive platform and witnesses a mob hit -- Dixie style. The killer looks up and says, "Lets see you dive." Suddenly, being a daredevil has lost its kick.Turns out there was a second witness, Robert Taylor from Detroit, who carries a picture of his great-granddaddys lynching along with a gun in a briefcase and listens to Marvin Pontiac while cruising the back roads of Mississippi in his black Jaguar. Robert works for a man from up north who has come to play General Grant in a Civil War battle reenactment, but like Dennis, Robert has a death-defying act of his own: hes sleeping with his bosss wife. Thirty-seven miles from Tunica is the famous "crossroads" where Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil for a style of funky blues that had never been heard before. Robert Taylor is about to introduce Dennis to a "crossroads" of his own. He has a secret agenda for taking on the Cornbread Cosa Nostra and wants Dennis in on it. To complicate matters are the women. Some are dressed in hoop skirts, and all of them have plans of their own. Vernice lures Dennis with the whitest
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