num_pages: 320
description: With more twists than an L.A. freeway, Philip Reed guides you on a lethal joyride you won't forget... Harold Dodge, pushing fifty, is a good man. But in a less-than-perfect world -- that is, Los Angeles -- good men sometimes have to do bad things. Just about everyone in the City of Angels has a hard luck story, but when it comes to bad breaks, Harold is rewriting the book. Now he's in a friend's car -- and in a spot. A pair of hired repo men in a stolen Buick are trying to run him off the freeway and into an early grave. But the cops pull him over first -- a blessing, except for one little thing. Harold's got a dead body in the trunk. That's when his luck takes a turn...for the worse. It all started because Harold has a weakness for killer legs. And when Marianna Perado in her spike heels asks him to help her "unwind" a rip-off deal at Joe Covo's dealership, where Harold once bird-dogged suckers into buying used cars, he jumps... and lands in a cesspool of corruption. Harold lives for women and cars -- he just never figured on dying for them. Now he has to add up a pack of lies and hope a scrap of truth comes out in the equation. But Harold lives in a city where everyone's working a hustle, where the only question is who's hustling you. The Santa Ana winds are blowing, and Harold Dodge is feeling the heat.
language: English
title: Bird Dog
titlecomplete: Bird Dog
genres: Fiction, Mystery
ratings_count: 35
series: Harold Dodge
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best First Novel
publisher: Coronet Books