"A novel that keeps the reader's interest"
Public relations specialist Garrett Doherty is just
another transplanted New Yorker working in the Miami office
until he attends a company party. At the event, Garrett
meets Cuban expatriate Ernesto Rodriguez and the two
discuss the Yankees especially El Duque Hernandez. The
next morning, Ernesto calls and demands that he be given
the 'cream of the crop' as he plans to use Garrett as his
PR man on his tierra grande project. With his company
trying for years to gain Rodriguez's account, Garrett has
pitched his way to the top with his unknowingly successful
endeavor. Garrett begins working on the Rodriguez land
development case immediately and through his client he
meets Frank Hedges and his wife, Magdalena. Doherty learns
that many people believe that Rodriguez has major drug
connections that are funding the project. Ernesto seems to
be in hiding as if he is dodging Doherty. In spite of
that, the PR guru begins an affair with Magdalena, which
leaves his head in the clouds (actually somewhere else
further south) while all hell breaks loose around him. MIAMI TWILIGHT is an entertaining South Florida
thriller that works because Tom Coffey invests a good
portion of his novel in insuring Garrett seems real. If
that gamut failed, this book would have tanked. Readers
believe in Garrett and his foolish affair that seems to
have doomed him so that even El Duque or Mariano will be
unable to come in to his rescue. Garrett must save himself
or else, making the entire story line plausible and the
novel a taut thriller. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted July 20, 2001
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