Sam Hill steals cars. Not just any cars but collectible cars rare works ofautomotive artistry. Sams a specialist and hes made a good life for himselfin Albuquer... » 

Sam Hill steals cars. Not just any cars but collectible cars rare works ofautomotive artistry. Sams a specialist and hes made a good life for himselfin Albuquerque.Things change one night after he steals a primo 1965 Thunderbird from alawyers house. In the trunk Sam finds a corpse a police informant with abullet hole between his eyes. And he learns that cops are swarming the garagewhere hed planned to deliver the TBird.Using his own resourcefulness as well as the assistance of his two palsapprentice thief Billy Suggs and an inscrutable giant named WayWay HendersonSam learns whos behind the body in the trunk Phil Ortiz a notorious drugdealer and car collector.Sam it seems boosted Ortizs favorite cara green lowrider painted with theimage of Our Lady of Guadalupeand Ortiz is determined to get even. And to getthat car back.The stakes get higher with each round of oneupmanship. Finally its clearthat Ortiz wont quit until he has the last laugh and Sam Hill is dead.In Boost Steve Brewer stirs up his usual potent mixture of high crime andlow comedy in a rollicking novel where car thieves are the good guys and theaction never stops.Steve Brewer spent 22 years in the newspaper business before turning to fictionfull time in 1997. He writes a weekly humor column for The AlbuquerqueTribune which is distributed nationally by Scripps Howard News Service. Helives in Redding California with his wife two sons and a dog named Elvis. «