The Card Sharp - Softcover

Gust, Bob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1480229911 ISBN 13: 9781480229914

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

Amy Prescott is a farm girl trying to make her way in a Chicago law firm dominated by men. Her best chance for partnership comes when she is assigned to a shipping client that is experiencing losses to the point where the entire empire is in jeopardy. Amy struggles with office politics and believes that she has been assigned the work because it will cause her to quit or because she will not solve the problem. Her home-spun wisdom, card sense, and cunning courtroom instincts actually make her the perfect choice for the assignment. The suspects range from competitors, to the union, to insiders, to the lawyers and everyone else who makes money based on the misfortune of others. Amy travels up and down the Mississippi looking for answers. At every bend, new suspects appear. While others are dealing from the bottom of the deck, Amy always has a new trick up her sleeve.

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Review

Bob Gust's Liars Dice (Syren Book Company, 2005) introduced a surefire pen, engaging with fluid, image-rich immediacy. Gust's stock in trade is page-turning entertainment, cover to cover, and The Card Sharp (North Star Press of St. Cloud, 2011) proves Liars Dice was no fluke. The truism dictates: Write what you know. Accordingly, Bob Gust of Kretch & Gust PLLC, Counselors and Attorneys at Law, crafts stories with lawyers as his protagonists. Lawyers, moreover, who are considerably more interesting than the Jaguar-sporting, country-club lounging stereotype getting paid ungodly sums just for being slicker than the next shyster. His legal eagles are decent, everyday folk who work hard for a living they just happen to do it by practicing law. At the center of The Card Sharp is Amy Prescott who finds herself sent on a dull-as-dishwater case, one that doesn t involve murder or some high-profile scandal. But, marshalling her resources with more resignation than resolve, gets to the bottom of a barge line on the verge of losing its insurance coverage. Don t start snoring yet. From the outset, Gust's storytelling ability has you following Prescott and her developing situation like a movie. So much so that it's not recommended for reading on the bus you're liable to get so wrapped up that you miss your stop. However, sitting down with popcorn and soda (or trail-mix and juice, depending on how worried you are about your waistline) wouldn't be a bad idea. --Dwight Hobbes, TC Daily Planet September 26, 2011

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1480229911
• ISBN 13: 9781480229914
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256