Landmark Status

<I>Landmark Status</I> careens madly through a subtropical tangle of legal action spirits spells kung fu car wrecks football phobias fetishes wooden flutes pet rabbits and vintage aircraft while the fate of Miami��s famed Century Club hangs in the balance. Once a notorious nightspot the Club just awoke from decades of slumbering decay��thanks to a local building boom. Now everybody��s scrambling to bury it under a fabulous high-rise.<P>Lawyer Benjy Bluestone couldn��t care less but a client owns the Club and seeks his help. It gets easier to say yes when he learns that beautiful broker Delia Torres is involved even though she represents a developer who��s furious to find the Club��s been optioned to a rival. Benjy and Delia soon discover her client will stop at nothing to turn that option into ��something so ugly the tide won��t take it out.�� Racing the clock they join forces on the road to Opa-locka where a violent confrontation threatens to blow the deal sky high.<P><I>��Move over Carl Hiaasen! This brilliantly funny romp through the `real�� Miami will have you howling with laughter and booking your trip to South Beach. You��re gonna love it!��</I> ��Michael Levin author of <I>Soft Target</I>