TY - SER KW - teenagers KW - fugitives AU - Albert French AB - Jeremiah Henderson and his girlfriend Willet Mercer aim to escape and to reach Manhattan’s bright lights. Three hundred dollars, they think, will do it. A hustler named Tommy Moses offers cash for a trick from Willet, but when she changes her mind, things spiral, and Moses is knifed. The lovers bolt with Moses’ cash and Buick to Wilmington, North Carolina, where Willet had abandoned a child. C1 - 1950 C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Homewood; Wilkinsburg C4 - Literary; Black CY - New York LA - English M3 - Novel N2 - Jeremiah Henderson and his girlfriend Willet Mercer aim to escape and to reach Manhattan’s bright lights. Three hundred dollars, they think, will do it. A hustler named Tommy Moses offers cash for a trick from Willet, but when she changes her mind, things spiral, and Moses is knifed. The lovers bolt with Moses’ cash and Buick to Wilmington, North Carolina, where Willet had abandoned a child. PB - Anchor Books PP - New York PY - 1998 RN - Albert French (1943— ) graduated in 1962 from Penn Hills High School in Allegheny County, served in the U.S. Marines during the Vietnam War, and worked for more than a decade at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as a photojournalist. He lives in Pittsburgh. EP - 246 p. TI - I Can't Wait on God ER -