Jacob Blunt has a strange connection with a number of dwarves. Upon entering the psychiatrist's office with a scarlet hibiscus in his curly blond hair he announces that he thinks he is losing his mind. Thus begins this classic crime thriller.

A chilling novel that shows what evil is and where it comes from. This is a thriller re-imagined as a bleak romance of the damned.

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Elmore Leonard
"No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford."

They are just four regular guys by the pool: ex-cop Larry 'Fuzz' Dolman, airline pilot Eddie Miller, salesman Don Luchessi and drug company rep Hank Norton. They live in a 'singles only' Miami apartment block. They like regular-guy things: booze, broads, cars, and a good card game.
The Shark-infested Custard is a startlingly amoral update of Dumas' The Three Musketeers set in 1970s Miami. As our four male swingers commit increasingly barbarous crimes it becomes clear that their only guiding principle is not to get caught - by adhering to the 'all for one, one for all' maxim.
Willeford joyfully applies the scalpel to the vacuous heart of male America, where being one of the guys is always going to be more important than mere life and death.