The much-loved comic thriller by the author of the Edgar Award�winning The Butcher�s Boy is now, by popular demand, back in print, featuring a new Introduction by bestselling author Carl Hiaasen. When Leroy �Chinese� Gordon breaks into a professor�s lab at the University of Los Angeles, he�s after some pharmaceutical cocaine, worth plenty of money. Instead, he finds the papers the professor has compiled for the CIA, which include a blueprint for throwing a large city into chaos. But how is the CIA to be persuaded to pay a suitable ransom, unless of course someone actually uses the plan to throw a large city into chaos�Los Angeles, for instance? Assigned to cope with the crisis and restore the peace, veteran agent Ben Porterfield steps onto the scene to remind us that the CIA�s middle name is, after all, Intelligence. Enlivening the mix are Gordon�s beautiful girlfriend, Margaret, his temperamental cat, Dr. Henry Metzger, and Metzger�s friend, an enormous half-wild dog with huge teeth.From the Trade Paperback edition.