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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 813.6 EAN: 9780312378097 ISBN: 0312378092 Label: St. Martin's Minotaur Manufacturer: St. Martin's Minotaur Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: June 10, 2008 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Release Date: June 10, 2008 Studio: St. Martin's Minotaur Editorial Review: Product Description: Boxer Miles Young thinks he’s got one more shot in him before it’s time to hang up the gloves for good. He may be the only one who thinks so. The truth is, he enjoys the recognition his career has brought him at home, in the small Latin American country of Belize, and he’s worried about how he’ll support his daughter once it’s over. So when his promoter comes to him with a proposition that includes one last big fight, he listens. Isabelle Gilmore wants Miles to find her daughter, who’s run off with some of her mother’s money and her no-good boyfriend. Isabelle’s afraid Rian’s going to marry the kid, the only son of corrupt ex--police chief Marlon Tablada, and she wants Rian---and the money---found. In return, Miles gets put on a fight card with a $30,000 payday. He’s reluctant, but Isabelle thinks a hometown hero can get people to talk in ways a private investigator can’t. Trouble is, before he can find Rian, he learns that there’s much more to Isabelle, her daughter, and Marlon than Isabelle let on. Clearly at home in the world of hardboiled crime writing, debut novelist Ian Vasquez is a bright new talent who infuses In the Heat with a steamy, exotic voice all his own. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A taste of Belize...This is Vasquez's first novel but, thankfully, it's not to be his last. Set in Belize, the former British Honduras, and the only English speaking Country in Central America, In the Heat keeps its promise and drops the reader right in to a hot, tangled web of wealth induced, corrupted, familial relations. Each time I opened it and began to read, Vasquez's book acted as a mental catalyst transporting me back to the Belize of my childhood: a small Third World Country whose economic and ... Read More Rating:  - Recommended 5-Star Mystery from New AuthorIn the Heat is a mystery by newcomer Ian Vasquez that is set in Belize. Miles Young is a boxer who has just lost a come back match. He is offered a job that will not only pay well, but give him an opportunity for another try at a come back. He is asked to find seventeen-year-old Rian Gilmore, who has run off with Joey Tablada. It doesn't sound like too hard a task and the pay off is good. Miles wants a solid pay day so he can care for his daughter. Nothing in this case is quite what ... Read More Rating: - Well crafted debutIn this well-crafted debut, Vasquez creates an intriguing amateur detective in the form of aging boxer Miles Young, who, as this novel begins, has just lost what might have been the last fight of his career. This makes him all the more vulnerable when he's approached by Isabelle Gilmore, one of his native Belize's most prominent (and notorious) citizens. Isabelle wants Miles to find her daughter Rian, who has run way with her ne'er do well boyfriend Joel and absconded with a substantial amount of ... Read More Rating: - JUST THE WAY I LIKE IT!I loved reading In the Heat. Ian Vasquez is truly a master of precise language. Personally, I love a book with lots of dialog, and I wasn't disappointed. Best of all, the dialog was so easy to read and believable that I felt I was right there ... just the way I like it! Vasquez put some very funny expressions in the story, too... I laughed out loud. This book is a perfect balance of action and dialog. I feel certain that this is just the first in a long line of Ian Vasquez books. Just think, ... Read More Rating: - Fun, compelling mystery set in Central America with boxing gumshoeI love Graham Greene's novels not just because of their psychological depth but mostly because he knows how to evoke a setting and a time -- you feel the heat, hear the mosquitos, and taste the gin and bitters his characters drink in Panama, Africa, Europe. Ian Vasquez -- tho this is his first novel -- has that gift for setting, and in this case it is in Belize, strangely enough an english-speaking Central American country, but with all the heat and atmospherics of a Greene novel. It ... Read More |
