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Chocolate lizards
- Title
- Chocolate lizards / Cole Thompson.
- Author
- Thompson, Cole.
- Publication
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3570.H59685 C46 1999 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 250 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- When a Harvard-educated aspiring actor loses all of his cash during a bus-ride poker game, he finds himself stranded in Abilene, Texas, broke and desperate. Enter Merle Luskey, a hard-drinkin', tough-talkin', oil-drillin', woman-lovin' wildcatter who just happens to have a job opening.
- About to lose his oil rigs and his ranch to the bank (with the help of an outrageously corrupt sheriff), Merle has a proposition for his new friend: he needs a "rat killer," someone smart enough to help him outwit the bank, the sheriff and a rival drilling company in a frantic race to hit pay dirt before the foreclosure goes through.
- What ensues is a rip-roaring conflagration of unbelievably vibrant characters, including a drunken cattle rancher who owns the land that Merle wants to drill on - and also owns every issue of Playboy ever published, speaking so fondly about tbe centerfolds you'd think they were kin. And meet Tex-Ann, a busty gum-snapping blonde imported from Dallas to - ahem - persuade the cattle rancher to sign on the dotted line.
- In the end, good old Texan gumption carries the day, but regardless of the victory, it's one helluva ride.
- ISBN
- 0312200528
- LCCN
- 98047013
- OCLC
- 40218758
- ocm40218758
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries