Winner Best Local Book of the Year, City Pages (Minneapolis-St. Paul)
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Pothead private eye Augie Boyer has been smoking too much Ponchartrain Pootie. On the eve of the Republican National Convention, a beautiful, blond violinist with multiple personalities walks into Augie's Minneapolis office and draws him into a case that involves neo-Nazi violin collectors, mind control specialists, and a mass of anti-abortion activists staging a rally to coincide with the convention. When Augie uncovers a plot to kill three abortion doctors, he gets help from from his assistant Blossom, a spike-haired ex-con, and her boyfriend, Detective Bobby Sabbatini of the St. Paul Police Department, a rabid poetry evangelist. FBI agent Francis Synge, a charming, black-Irish master of code, is also an invaluable aide. But when Augie's only child, the radical singer-songwriter Minnesota Rose arrives to sing at a protest rally, he realizes how dangerously close to him the threat has come. |
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Earlier Novels
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