James Flood has just gotten out of a Florida prison with three partners and a plan: to rob an upstate New York bank of $4 million and escape to the West Indies and ultimately South America or Africa. As Jimmy, he grew up troubled, angry, and all but orphaned by his battling and neglectful parents in the town of Scammons Landing, New York. Now he's going back there, not only to strike it rich, but to take hostages among the Quaker community that tried to take care of him when he was little, even after he accidentally shot a garbage collector when he was still just a kid. His opponents include 55-year-old banker Marcus Hayworth and his oldest daughter Janet, who sexually humiliated James when he was 16 and now keeps herself half comatose on drugs.
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When Flood's team goes up against a community of nonviolent Quakers, it comes down to who can out-think the others, whether Marcus can negotiate the criminals into splitting up and betraying one another, and how to keep the entire powder keg of a situation secret from the local law enforcement who will only mess it up and trip off the gunfire.
The review of this Book prepared by David Loftus
