Citizen Vince
- ISBN-10
- 0061577650
- ISBN-13
- 9780061577659
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-06-17
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Author
- Jess Walter
Description
At 1:59 a.m. in Spokane, Washington—eight days before the 1980 presidential election—Vince Camden pockets his stash of stolen credit cards and drops by an all-night poker game before heading to his witness-protection job dusting crullers at Donut Make You Hungry. Along with a neurotic hooker girlfriend, this is the total sum of Vince's new life. But when a familiar face shows up in town, Vince realizes his sordid past is still too close behind him. During the next unforgettable week, he'll negotiate a coast-to-coast maze of obsessive cops, eager politicians, and assorted mobsters—only to find that redemption might exist, of all places, in the voting booth.
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