The SharkInfested Custard Author:Charles Ray Willeford Longtime writer Willeford did not gain popularity until the 1980s, when he wrote the four Hoke Moseley novels, beginning with Miami Blues. Now, five years after his death, a long-forgotten work is being published. It tells the story of four young men who live in a Miami complex and become friends. One night, as a result of a bet, a 14-year-old g... more »irl who is picked up by one of the friends dies of an overdose. Her drug supplier is then killed and their bodies left in his car in a parking lot. The men must play out their roles in a friendship held together by trust and the events of that fatal night. The novel is decidedly not polished and is a trifle dated but has that distinctive prose touch and twist-of-fate ending that are Willeford's trademarks. -- Library Journal« less