Introducing the Richest Family in America - Softcover

Drum Dr, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0984564608 ISBN 13: 9780984564606

Publisher: Charles David Drum, 2010

Synopsis

High in the hills above fashionable Montecito, California, slipping in and out of their mansions on Swizzle Stick Road, a ridiculously wealthy family is under siege.  A crooked lawyer, a beautiful Chinese pro golfer, and a celebrity-mad plastic surgeon are conspiring to convince a wealthy family's clueless old patriarch to move his factories from Cleveland to China.  As the conspiracy clicks into place, the artfully flirtatious pro golfer romances the old billionaire across Europe.  But their romp from Paris to Shanghai catches the attention of the black sheep of the family, and he doesn't like it.  The interior decorator and former alcoholic, who is also subject to panic attacks, bravely sashays into action. Anxiously warding off attacks from his eccentric older sisters, the family's youngest son sets out for Cleveland to organize factory workers while the family's unscrupulous son-in-laws throw everything they have at him.  What follows is a brutally funny comedy of grandiose intentions, half-baked revenge, heroic upper crust foolishness, and disjointedly passionate cross-cultural romance.  Introducing the Richest Family in America runs a hilarious gauntlet of greed, betrayal and desire as America's richest family teeters precariously on the edge of dissolution and struggles to right itself again.

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About the Author

David Drum is an award-winning journalist and author based in Los Angeles.  He has worked as a newspaper reporter, a ranch foreman, a craps dealer, a funeral director, an advertising copywriter and an inner-city schoolteacher. He is also the author or co-author of seven nonfiction books and one book of poetry.

From the Back Cover

A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN WITH A SECRET
　
A beautiful Chinese pro golfer flies to America aiming to convince America's wealthiest man to move all his manufacturing plants to China. Look out! She's hooked up with a crooked lawyer and a ditzy plastic surgeon buried deep inside the richest family in America. As the unlikely trio puts on the squeeze, only the family's blackest sheep can block the disastrous move offshore. But will the drop dead handsome son with the dark past and the panic attacks collapse under all the pressure? Will the company's labor unions and management do what they must to keep their jobs? Why are all the miniature pigs stampeding? And what about all the reporters swarming like ants around the world's richest man, a publicity-shy billionaire struggling inside a sinister and complicated web from which he can hardly hope to get away?

Introducing the Richest Family in America
breezes through the spectacular mansions of the ultra rich to find a sea of corporate double-dealing, breath-taking family duplicity and a few good pages of madcap sex to arrive at a heartwarming conclusion for unsettling times.

Edition details

• Publisher: Charles David Drum
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0984564608
• ISBN 13: 9780984564606
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 356