The Horse Latitudes

by Robert Ferrigno

Book Overview

Danny DiMedici's ex-wife Laura is missing, there's a corpse in her blood-spattered beach house, and Danny is the prime suspect. Desperate to get to Laura before the cops, Danny returns to the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380708698
• ISBN13: 9780380708697
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Avon Books
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Surprisingly good read!

In helping his ex-wife steer clear of a murder rap, he becomes involved with a few detectives, his bizarre ex brother in-law, a couple of muscle bound freaks (Baby Hueys!), a "mad" scientist and other assorted characters. Not entirely predictable and fast paced enough to keep me reading!!I like the way Ferrigno pieces a story together. It wasn't difficult to recall characters, great descriptive work and good storytelling.

One of my favorite novels of all time

Engaging, clever, wittyEven the cliches are goodRead this novel when it was first published, recommended it to everyone I knew and still do so.

Definitely Recommended! Great characters but convoluted plot

I was hooked on this book about the third paragraph when the main characters frustration about his divorce is described as feeling like throwing a fat man through a plate glass window...just to hear the noiseThe perspective of Southern California's sub-culture as viewed by an ex drug dealer (pot only, thank-you) is fascinating as are some of the compelling characters who include:- the outwardly glamorous, successful ex-wife, whose true nature could make Charles Manson appear compassionate - the vietnam vet brother-in-law, formerly an alligator-sweater-wearing preppie college golf star, now enjoying a hermit-like high tech existence in the ground zero environment of an abandoned oil plant - Cubanito, a refugee from Castro's most horrifying prison camps, who now combines the lifestyle of a Rolex wearing Ferrari driving drug dealer with a Dale Carnegie type entrepenurial attidude that could only happen in America.The plot does become hard to both follow and believe, but the author's talent for character development as well as dialogue and observations that stick in a reader's mind more than compensate.

Wow! Great story line, difficult to close

Danny DeMedici's life is entangled in his ex-wife's web of sex and industrial politics with a dash of manufactured drugs. A story line that draws you on to the damaged end as Danny seeks to understand the messages left for him in ancient South American rituals. This character provides the basis for more fiction around Danny's skills. A great read