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One of the best selling detective novels of 1985, Glitz is set in Puerto Rico, Miami Beach, and Atlantic City, though the credible settings are less important than the characters. It is a story of people on the make—gambling casino moguls; gangsters; marginally talented cabaret performers; a San Juan taxicab driver — and the all-consuming desire for revenge, personified by an ex-convict who has dubbed himself "Mr. Magic...

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