Steve Brewer - Boost (2004)
Like his charming Bullets of last year, Steve Brewer's Boost is another breezy romp featuring a raucous rogue's gallery of offbeat crooks, cops and hoods.
Sam Hill lives to steal cars -- not just any cars but exotic classics collectors lust for and that fetch the biggest bucks on the black market.
Unfortunately, Sam steals from a guy one never wants to cross, a violent drug dealer who loves only one thing in life more than money: his car. That theft sets off a chain reaction resulting in a wave of violence and hilarity that sweeps across Albuquerque like Patton through the Germans.
Like Elmore Leonard, the writer whose work his most resembles, Brewer writes with a light and deft touch, bringing style and wit to the crime genre, along with a pleasing gift for character and dialogue.
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