The Paperboy

by Pete Dexter

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The sun was rising over Moat County, Florida, when Sheriff Thurmond Call was found on the highway, gutted like an alligator.  A local redneck was tried, sentenced, and set to fry.

Then Ward James, hotshot investigative reporter for the Miami Times, returns to his rural hometown with a death row femme fatale who promises him the story of the decade.  She's armed with explosive evidence, aiming to free--and meet--her convicted "fiancÚ."

With Ward's disillusioned younger brother Jack as their driver, they barrel down Florida's back roads and seamy places in search of The Story, racing flat out into a shocking head-on collision between character and fate as truth takes a back seat to headline news...
  • ISBN10 1568952171
  • ISBN13 9781568952178
  • Publish Date 31 December 1995 (first published 7 February 1995)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 16 December 2011
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Wheeler Publishing Inc
  • Edition Large type / large print edition
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 352
  • Language English