Money Matters A Novel - Couverture souple

Finney, Brian

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798223466505

Editeur : Brian Finney, 2019

Synopsis

Jenny is twenty-seven, bright, and barely surviving on two part-time jobs. One of them involves reviewing surveillance tapes for a major Los Angeles detective agency. But she soon finds herself out of her depth when a friend persuades her to investigate a woman's disappearance. Her life is about to be upended. Just getting by will no longer work.

The action takes place in Los Angeles over six days surrounding the mid-term election in 2010. Jenny's amateur sleuthing leads her into a web of intrigue that uncovers connections between big money, the election battle over immigration, and a drug cartel. The other employer for whom Jenny works is the CEO of a leading mutual fund company whose brother is running for governor on an anti-immigration platform part financed by his wealthy brother. When Jenny discovers that the CEO's house has been bugged by the detective agency she works for the sinister web connecting politics, big money and the cartel threatens her life. Her major ally is the director of an immigrants' rights organization to whom she is strongly attracted.

Before her search is over Jenny is forced to abandon almost every aspect of her exiting life. Will she remake herself? Or will she sink under the powerful forces of big money? This short novel casts an exciting, ironic, and humorous light on the dark underside of a Los Angeles culture that is still dealing with these issues today.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Brian Finney is a writer and Professor Emeritus of Literature at California State University, Long Beach. Educated in England, he obtained a BA from the University of Reading and a PhD from the University of London. Between 1964-1987 he taught and arranged extra-mural courses for the University of London. Since immigrating to the US in 1987 he has taught at the University of California, Riverside, University of Southern California, UCLA, and California State University, Long Beach.

He has published nine books, including Christopher Isherwood: A Critical Biography (1979) which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Terrorized: How the War on Terror Affected American Culture and Society (KDP 2011/2018), and two novels, Money Matters: A Novel ( 2019), a Finalist for the American Fiction Awards, and Dangerous Conjectures (2021).

He is married and lives in Venice, California.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brian Finney
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798223466505
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 166
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible