The Eight-Day Clock - Couverture souple

Swanson, Dale

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1523953160 ISBN 13 : 9781523953165

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

The Eight-Day Clock is a dryly sardonic, hard-boiled, pulp-style detective novel about a team of gay male gumshoes who find themselves entangled in the dirty identity politics of central Florida in 1996.

The story begins at the home of June and Dick Whitlock, a new-money monstrosity in the affluent suburbs of Hillsborough County. Dick is an incumbent Republican state senator, a Mormon whose wealth and career rests precariously on the family’s Christian-market media and retail empire, now powered largely by the iron-willed ambition of his wife.

Recently, they’ve received an envelope containing compromising photographs of their young son, Tony, along with a note demanding $750,000. With Dick’s reelection campaign in its final stretch, they hire private investigator Jimmy Campaglia to find the blackmailer before any damage is done to the family’s reputation.

But when the usually nonchalant Jimmy is turned on by the sexy photos, he becomes more than dispassionately interested in the case after getting to know Tony—in the biblical sense.

Jimmy, with his what-the-hell attitude and his marijuana-steeped partner, Bailey, encounter an endless stream of pious, uptight, inept, and buffoonish characters as they wade neck-deep into the oozing fount of hypocrisy at the center of the Whitlock conservative media and political empire.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

After escaping his wife, their trailer, and his life as a card-carrying Teamster, Dale Swanson spent five years pleasuring himself in the Film Department at Columbia College, Chicago, before heading to the Pacific coast, where—while shucking books in a big store on Market Street—he discovered, applied, and was accepted to the Masters Writing program at the University of San Francisco. While there, he was nominated for the annual Scribner's Best of the Fiction Workshops anthology.

Entering life backward, Swanson has been an incorrigible smartass with a twisted perspective of the world ever since. He currently lives in Palm Springs, California, with his long-time husband—a Florida native—peddling a lifestyle to those with abundant leisure time and disposable income. The Eight-Day Clock is his debut novel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1523953160
• ISBN 13: 9781523953165
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 310
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg