Big Money - Softcover

Getze, Jack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1591332397 ISBN 13: 9781591332398

Publisher: Hilliard & Harris, 2008

Synopsis

Jack Getze spent nine years as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, a total of twelve years covering national business and economic news for the Times, the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, and the London Times. Getze later sold stocks and bonds for a regional securities firm on the New Jersey Shore. BIG MONEY is the second installment in his Austin Carr Mystery Series.

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From the Author

In this jaunty follow-up to Big Numbers, a scruffy stockbroker returns to tangle with mobsters, women and his own big mouth.   The good news, as the story opens, is that the hero is in the company of a gorgeous naked lady. The bad news is that she's pointing a shotgun at him. It's a typical predicament for Austin Carr, a semi-shady New Jersey financial professional temporarily in charge of Shore Securities while his boss is on vacation.   But market fluctuations are the least of Carr's worries. He's being extorted into opening a money-laundering account for local crime boss Bluefish; an auditor who was investigating his company has turned up murdered; a fetching state police captain figures he's the key to her organized-crime probe; and his boss's mother has been picked up for fixing her church bingo game.   Carr is continually getting into trouble over his weakness for breasts, his penchant for self-incriminating statements and his vestigial moral sensibility, which, like an appendix, makes itself felt at inconvenient times. On the plus side, he's got his noble Mexican buddy Luis, a boyish grin for placating angry females, an occasional glimmer of perceptiveness and a stock salesman's gift for closing the deal, even with people who are preparing to throw his weighted body into the ocean.    The way to read this book is to ... relax and enjoy Getze's punchy dialogue and colorful characters-Bluefish's henchman Max is an especially pungent creation-and his hilarious hangdog protagonist's dissolute charm.   If Elmore Leonard had gotten a securities license, this is the book he might have written.    -- Kirkus Indie

Review

"Darkly comic, with an engaging protagonist."-- T.J. MacGregor, Edgar Winner, Author of The Tango Key Mysteries

About this edition

• Publisher: Hilliard & Harris
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1591332397
• ISBN 13: 9781591332398
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 214