About “The way we die now”

Miami Homicide Detective Hoke Moseley is ordered to grow a beard and is then assigned to work undercover far from his jurisdiction without his badge, gun, or teeth. He impersonates a drifter to infiltrate a farm operation suspected of murdering migrant workers, but upon arriving for his job interview, he is not offered the position.

Praise for “The way we die now”

“No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford.”

— Elmore Leonard

“If you are looking for a master’s insight into the humid decadence of South Florida and its polyglot tribes, nobody does that as well as Mr. Willeford.”

— The New York Times Book Review

“Willeford builds up enormous tension--you are compelled to keep reading.”

— The Philadelphia Inquirer

Book details

First published
1988
Latest edition
1988 · ISBN 9781400032501
Pages
256

Frequently asked questions

How many pages is The way we die now?

The way we die now by Charles Ray Willeford has 256 pages.

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