Sideswipe Author:Charles Willeford Hoke Moseley, the leisure-suited Miami homicide detective introduced in Miami Blues and New Hope for the Dead, finally show the world around him what a real "burned out" cop does - he stops working, stops talking, stops thinking ... and sits unseeing in his chair with a complete crime-induced breakdown of the highest order. In another part of t... more »he state: career criminal Troy Louden - amoral, alias many other names, and reminiscent of certain reptiles - has arrived to upset the balance of nature on the cityt streets of south Florida. Sideswipe, like its predecessors, is distinguished by Hoke Moseley's utterly original way of doing business on his beat, and by a blithe and pitiless killer as fascinating as any antagonist in police fiction. Here two sets of lives that should have absolutely nothing to do with each othere collide in a spectacular and violent supermarket robbery that shouldn't have happened, but did.« less