Synopsis
A sinister prowl among the rich and sophisticated, the crude and the cruel, The Fat Man Can t Swim is a frighteningly realistic portrayal of the intersecting worlds of international power and crime. It s a dark, literate suspense story about money changing hands, from the almost innocent, to criminals so depraved they d kill for a pack of cigarettes. Cops, diplomats, federal agents, high-class scoundrels, and assassins compete in a deadly game that traverses class and geography, from the ugliest side of a California drug town to the world s labyrinthine bureaucracies and corridors of power. Blum approaches his characters with all the intimacy of a friend or colleague, someone who knows their worlds firsthand.
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About the Author
RICHARD H. A. BLUM is the author of a variety of non-fiction works, including Old Tom, Young Tom and Offshore Haven Banks, Trusts, and Companies, as well as a number of suspense novels under the pseudonym Hartshorne. He has worked for the CIA, was the founder of the Bureau of Strategic Intelligence, U.S. Representative to the United Nations Narcotic Commission, and Senior Consultant to the U.S. Senate on money laundering.
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Lee Barbour, an idealist with a gun who works for a government intelligence agency, travels from a drug-ridden California town to the palaces of Vienna and the secret service-laden Bulgaria in Richard H.A. Blum's The Fat Man Can't Swim. On her third day at her new job, Claire Dubois is sent off to Vienna to be Lee's partner, but when she's immediately kidnapped, Lee's investigation of corrupt politicians and businessmen, as well as career criminals, takes a life-or-death turn.
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