Way Past Legal Mass_market - 2005

Fans of Elmore Leonard and Richard Price will find a new favourite in Norman Green for the first time in mass market.Manny's latest score left him with more money than he's ever dreamed of, but with money comes danger&–from his partner, Rosey, who might get greedy, and from the Russian mobsters they stole it from. Worse, if he's busted again, he'll go back to prison for life, leaving his motherless five&–year&–old son, Nicky, still trapped in the foster care system.With the kind of guts born of panic and desperation, Manny grabs his son and heads for the wilds of Maine. When he discovers that the bad guys are on his trail, his impulse is, as usual, to run. But the people he's met in Maine&–including the local police chief&–have become unlikely friends and an unlikely surrogate family to his boy. Now they're all in danger, and it's because of him. Does Manny have what it takes to change his street&–tough ways and become a real father to Nicky? And does he dare settle into a new life, putting at stake the safety of everyone he has come to love?Norman Green presents a gripping portrait of a man trying to break out of the stranglehold of a life of crime and create a future for himself and his son.

Time, a guy once told me, ain't nothing but one goddam thing after another.