Citizen Vince

Jess Walter

eBook - 2012

Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel of the Year"You just have to read it . . . . Utterly inventive. . . excruciatingly breathless." —Maureen Corrigan, Washington PostFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins: a riveting story of witness protection, petty thievery, local politics, and murder—set against the turbulent backdrop of the 1980 presidential electionIt's the fall of 1980, the last week before the presidential election that pits the downtrodden Jimmy Carter against the suspiciously sunny Ronald Reagan. In a seedy suburban house in Spokane, a small-time crook formerly from New York, Vince Camden, pockets his weekly allotment of stolen credit cards and heads off to his witness-protection j...ob at a donut shop. At the shop he takes a shine to a regular named Kelly, who works for a local politician. Somehow he finds... more