Three great novels from Willeford's hardcore early days, gathered together in a single volume. PICK UP Prowling the grimy streets of San Francisco low-life, Helen is a beautiful, sensuous drunk - and a pathetically easy pick-up. Harry just wants to help, but before long he and Helen are both adrift in a sea of alcohol - until Harry conceives the ultimate crime... THE BURNT ORANGE HERESY Art critic James Figueras is a psychotic, an amoral unrepentant killer. Out to make a lasting name for himself, he seeks out the ...
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Three great novels from Willeford's hardcore early days, gathered together in a single volume. PICK UP Prowling the grimy streets of San Francisco low-life, Helen is a beautiful, sensuous drunk - and a pathetically easy pick-up. Harry just wants to help, but before long he and Helen are both adrift in a sea of alcohol - until Harry conceives the ultimate crime... THE BURNT ORANGE HERESY Art critic James Figueras is a psychotic, an amoral unrepentant killer. Out to make a lasting name for himself, he seeks out the greatest painter in the world, now a hermit in the Florida swamplands. Figueras is after more than the man, however - he wants the work, and something more...something more horrible than can be imagined. COCKFIGHTER Frank Mansfield is the cockfighter, a man obsessed with an illegal sport which is unspeakably cruel, unthinkably bloody - and incredibly exciting. His pursuit of the champion's medal takes him into the seamy underbelly of rural Southern life...into the hot dusty small-town circuits, where greed and corruption vie only with lust and violence...
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Add this copy of Charles Willeford Omnibus: Pick Up', 'Burnt Orange to cart. $107.15, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by No Exit Press.
