Rum Punch

Published: 9 September 2025
ISBN: 9780241755402
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
RRP: $22.99

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Rum Punch

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From America's top writer of hardboiled crime, the novel that became Tarantino's hit film JACKIE BROWN

An air hostess doing the Caribbean-Florida run, Jackie also uses her job to shift large amounts of hot money. The Feds are closing in on her and the highly dysfunctional arms-dealers she works for are not getting any more functional. It would involve huge risks, but could she perhaps walk away from the whole wreckage, happy and rich?

Published: 9 September 2025
ISBN: 9780241755402
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
RRP: $22.99

Categories:

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