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The Marauders by Tom Cooper
"A little Elmore Leonard, a little Charles Portis, and very much its own uniquely American self. . .Tom Cooper has written one hell of a novel."-Stephen KingWhen the BP oil spill devastates the Louisiana Gulf Coast, the citizens of the bayou town of Jeanette scramble to replace their lost livelihoods. Among them is one-armed, pill-popping shrimper Gus Lindquist, who has nothing left but the dying glimmer of a boyhood dream- finding the lost treasure of pirate Jean Lafitte. With his metal detector and Pez dispenser full of Oxycontin, Lindquist steers his rickety shrimp boat into the savage Louisiana swamps.
Along his journey, Gus meets a motley crew of characters- Wes Trench, a young Cajun man estranged from his father since his mother died in Katrina; Reginald and Victor Toup, sociopathic twin brothers and drug lords; Cosgrove and Hanson, petty criminals searching for a secret that could make them rich, or kill them; and Brady Grimes, a BP middleman out to make his career by swindling the townsfolk of Jeanette, among them his own mother.
Funny, dark, and compelling, The Marauders throws these characters on a rollicking collision course that all of them might not survive.
Tom Cooper was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1970. His travels in Europe and the Middle East have allowed him to create outstanding relationships with a number of knowledgeable sources in Iran, whose stories may be found in his books and articles. During World War II, his interest in military aviation shifted to smaller air forces and battles, particularly the Arab and Iranian air forces, as well as the Iraq-Iran war, which he researched in the late 1980s.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780804140584 |
| ISBN 10 | 0804140588 |
| Title | The Marauders |
| Author | Tom Cooper |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc) |
| Year published | 2015-11-03 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Prizes | Winner of Crook's Corner Book Prize 2016, Nominated for SIBA Book Award 2016, Nominated for Strand Magazine Critics Award 2015, Nominated for VCU Cabell First Novelist Prize 2016 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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