The Fourth Durango by Ross Thomas (1989)

The Fourth Durango
by Ross Thomas
Publisher: The Mysterious Press
Copyright: 1989
Book Club Edition

The first Durango is in Spain; the second in Mexico; and the third is a ski town in the mountains of Colorado. But the fourth Durango is a small isolated beach city in southern California with a population of 9,861, no industry to speak of, and some magnificent weather that its citizens can't eat or pay their bills with. It's also the setting for Ross Thomas' witty and ingenious new novel.

To make civic ends meet, Durango's beautiful and savvy mayor, B. D. Huckins, and her wily chief of police, Sid Fork, have gone into the hideout business, selling sanctuary to those whose former friends and associates are either trying to kill them or have them killed.

Durango's newest hideout customer is the garrulous and brilliant Jack Adair, an ex-chief justice of a state supreme court and alleged bribe-taker, who has just completed a stretch in a federal penitentiary for tax evasion. He is quite convinced, and with good reason, that someone wants him dead.

Adair dispatches his son-in-law, the quiet and careful Kelly Vines, to open negotiations with the mayor and the chief for a hideout in the fourth Durango.

It's shortly after these negotiations begin that the false priest arrives in town.

And it's shortly after this that the killings begin.

Condition: Used. Hardcover. Dust cover shows light discoloration and shelf wear. Pages may be tanning from age. Previous owner's "Library Of" stamp is on the front endpaper.

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