Dimensions
134 x 205 x 18mm
Fans of Elmore Leonard and Richard Price will find a new favorite in Norman Green's WAY PAST LEGAL. His street name is Mohammed. He's what the cops call a "home invader," what most people call a thief. His only permanent possessions are his Sibley's Guide to Birds and his personal "life list" for his secret pastime (birdwatching) and his laptop, which he uses to troll Web sites for housesitting gigs. With no fixed address-he moves from place to place and cases the neighbors' homes for potential hits-and too many jailhouse tattoos, it's not surprising that Mohammed eventually falls in with Rosey, a criminal much more brutal and daring than himself. Together, they unexpectedly make the biggest score of their lives. But instead of celebrating, Mohammed knows that his half of the take makes him vulnerable.
Rosey likes him, but he likes money more, and Mohammed wouldn't bet much on his own chances of survival. Besides, the straight life looks more and more attractive, especially because if he screws up again, he goes back to prison for life. The most important factor pulling him away from the street is his son, Nicky. The kid's mother is dead, so he's in foster care, and Mohammed can only visit him under supervision. With a couple million in hand, he figures it's now or never, so he grabs his son and takes off for the wilds of Maine where no one from his old life would think to look for "Manny." Just when he's starting to feel at home among the "Mainers," things take a turn for the worse. Rosey and two enforcers from the Russian mob are on his tail. His impulse is, as usual, to keep running. But to complicate things, he's feeling an opposite, if not equal, pull to to stay. The people he's met in Maine-including a local police chief-have become unlikely friends. With three bad guys looking for him, it's not only Manny and his son who are in danger-his new friends are at risk, too. Does he have what it takes to change his life? Norman Green, author of Shooting Dr. Jack and The Angel of Montague Street, presents a gripping portrait of a man trying to break out of the stranglehold of a life of crime and a fast-moving story of suspense.
