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The time is 1925. The place, St. Louis, Missouri. Charley Floyd, a good-looking, sweet-smiling country boy from Oklahoma working as a baker's helper at the Kroger Bakery, has just taken the big step that will make him, very shortly, a legend in his own lifetime: he has just robbed his first armored car. Charley is an irresistible invention, as American as Huck Finn, a young man so charming that it's hard not to like him, even as he's robbing you at gunpoint. The women in his life - his tough-talking mentor and lover, Ma Ash (an older woman who recognizes just where Charley is headed, but…
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Editions
7 editions- Paperback · English · 2002Simon & Schuster · 384 pages · 9780743230186
- Audiobook · English · 1994Audioworks · 9780671518929
- Other · English · 2010Simon & Schuster · 9781439129685
- Other · English · 1997Thorndike Press · 659 pages · 9780786210459
- Other · English · 1996Orion Publishing Group, Limited · 9781857976304
- Other · English · 1995Pocket Star Books · 448 pages · 9780671891671
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