Slippery Slopes - Couverture souple

Kaiser, Ronald O.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1633854302 ISBN 13 : 9781633854307

Editeur : Word Association Publishers, 2021

Synopsis

“All this adds up to a weekend at Stony Creek chock-full of egos, schemers, wheelers, and dealers, all hoping to get the better of the others without showing their hands. The only thing that seems certain is that they can’t all come out of the weekend on top. Maybe they won’t all come out of it alive either.

Kaiser’s prose is lively and vernacular. His narrative voice comes across as a character in and of itself, unafraid to editorialize, as here in the case of Joe: “He wasn’t tough, not even scary. He was just a greasy, petty thief weaseling his way through life. He was a cruddy guy who was called a dirt-bag, sleaze, and slimebucket, yet he somehow crawled out of his hole occasionally to pass himself off as a harmless weirdo.” The book has no shortage of personality…” — Kirkus Reviews

As glasses clink and horns sound through the New Year at a rich Pennsylvania resort, a cloddish robbery and inconceivable revenge cross paths—and cross again.

Stoney Creek was founded during The Great Depression when scullery maid Greta Kasser, a calculating German immigrant, manipulates her wealthy employer out of a small tract of land and turns it into an empire.

It becomes the setting for love, lust, luck and the ludicrous.

Greta’s heirs take over, each with their own agenda, creating an opening for a mysterious millionaire who attempts to buy the resort while a bungling street punk robs the secret money room.

The good cop son and his bad cop father struggle with the case, and each other, while a sadistic Sheriff connives, and the millionaire unleashes a stunning revelation.

New Year’s Eve, 2001, opens a Pandora’s Box of love, hate, revenge and death as curious lives slide down slippery slopes, some reaching the bottom, others clinging desperately to the top.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Word Association Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1633854302
• ISBN 13: 9781633854307
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 488
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