num_pages: 208
description: A refugee from a world of drug addicts and misfits, Thomas Skelton goes home to Key West. But Key West itself turns out to be an alien world - torrid, hostile and grotesque. Taking up residence in an abandoned airplane fuselage, Skelton plans to become a skiff guide in the shining blue subtropical waters and enters into a competition with Nichol Dance, supreme guide of the Keys. Dance has already killed one man while tending bar in Kentucky and will not hesitate to kill another. But Skelton will not back down and the two, surrounded by an assortment of eccentric characters, embark on a deadly course from which neither can turn back.
language: English
title: Ninety-Two in the Shade
titlecomplete: Ninety-Two in the Shade
genres: Classics, American, Noir, The United States Of America, Humor, Novels, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 1516
places: Key West, Florida
awards: awardedAt: 126259200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Vintage Books