- Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Pocket Star (Aug 27 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0671028308
- ISBN-13: 978-0671028305
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.7 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 204 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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Penzler Pick, July 2001: Tom Coffey has a genius for creating antiheroes. His first book, The Serpent Club, featured an all-too-human reporter named Ted Lowe. In this his second book, he has created a public relations man, Garrett Doherty, who exhibits all the character and decency of, well, the people next door. Based in Miami, Garrett is an honest enough man, given his job, and is married to a good woman. His parent company in New York is proud of the job he is doing. But at a company party he begins to get into a situation that will spiral out of control and will not end until he betrays everyone and everything that he holds dear.
Standing at the bar, Garrett strikes up a conversation with a man who is as big a Yankees fan as he is. After discussing the pitching talents of El Duque, the stranger hands him a card, but it is not until he gets to work the next morning and is congratulated for doing a great job at the party that Garrett realizes he was talking to an important man. His company has been trying to do business with Ernesto Rodriguez for a long time, and now Rodriguez is willing to do that business providing Garrett is the man assigned to him. Without really knowing what exactly Rodriguez does, Garrett makes an appointment with him and is soon up to his neck in compromising situations. Rodriguez is a land developer and, through him, Garrett meets Frank Hedges and his wife, Magdalena, around whom Garrett develops a rich fantasy life--which we get to share. Six people's lives will collide over a short period of time. Not all of them will survive and those who do will never be the same. Coffey's writing, which is superb, can best be described as "edgy." --Otto Penzler --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Publishers Weekly
Coffey's followup to his bestselling debut, The Serpent Club, is a routine and often repetitive suspense novel. Garrett Doherty, a public relations man, and his wife, Helen, have lived in Miami for almost two years when Garrett meets Ernesto Rodriguez, a Cuban exile and land developer. Ernesto has plans to build a major housing development called Tierra Grande and wants Garrett to handle the public relations side of the deal. While working on Tierra Grande, Garrett is approached by Frank Hedges, a man who worked with Ernesto many years ago and wishes to resume their partnership. Frank's wife, Magdalena, is so gorgeous that Garrett immediately falls in lust with her, jeopardizing his career and his marriage. To make matters worse, questions arise concerning the financing of the housing project, suggesting that Ernesto is funding the deal with drug money. But just as Garrett decides to confront Ernesto, his boss disappears. With the company breathing down his neck for the money Ernesto owes, and just after his wife announces she is pregnant, Garrett finds solace in the arms of Magdalena. It is hard to dredge up much sympathy for Coffey's faithless, self-absorbed protagonist he's the type to confess he married his wife for convenience, then expect sympathy. Just as off-putting is the novel's stiff prose and its relentless focus on Garrett and Magdalena's lackluster, distasteful affair. Drama gives way to self-dramatization in this stale, sluggish thriller.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Story not much worth telling,
By Dan Allison "Dan" (Tampa Bay) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Miami Twilight (Mass Market Paperback)
Coffey tried to write a pretty good novel here; he almost succeeded. The narrator, Garrett, is a nasty s.o.b. who thinks he's better than all the hard-working people around him who remain faithful to their spouses. The accusations of CIA involvement in coke-peddling are old, tired and hackneyed. Coffey hasn't spent much time in Florida, and except for one flying cockroach and some stereotyped Cubans, the story might have been set in Alaska. Next?
4.0 out of 5 stars
A well wasted tree...,
By R. Troyan Krause (Woodbury, CT United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Miami Twilight (Hardcover)
I respectfully disagree with another's review of Mr. Coffey's Miami Twilight which appears here. If indeed a tree was wasted, it was a well wasted tree. I say this for two reasons. For anyone who has spent some time in and around the Miami area, as I have, Mr. Coffey does an admirable job of conveying the sights, sound and pulse of this truly international, intriguing region. I enjoyed his transporting me back for a visit. More importantly though was the result of seeing Mr. Coffey's tale through the first person point of view of his lead character. I don't believe in writing a review of a book and end up giving away the entire storyline in the process. Suffice it to say that this suspenseful, mysterious thriller does reach a conclusion, BUT it's a conclusion through the eyes, mind and heart of the first person main character with all his emotional biases coming into play. It's days later now since I've finished this book, but I'm still wondering whether the character reached the right conclusion or whether instead it was the only one his mind and heart could accept. When you think about it, that's a marvelous ending for a book. Read it and see what your conclusion is. God knows there are choices.
1.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Miami Twilight (Hardcover)
If a reader wants to know a few "syllables" of Spanish it's fine.Otherwise, a tree was wasted!
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