ISBN: 0-88739-309-8
384 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Pub Date: 9/2001
Paperback Original
Price: $15.95
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Fat Man Can't Swim, The
Richard H. A. Blum
A sinister prowl among the rich and sophisticated, the crude and the cruel, The Fat Man Can't Swim is a frighteningly realistic portrayal of the intersecting worlds of international power and crime. It's a dark, literate suspense story about money changing hands, from the almost innocent, to criminals so depraved they'd kill for a pack of cigarettes. Cops, diplomats, federal agents, high-class scoundrels, and assassins compete in a deadly game that traverses class and geography, from the ugliest side of a California drug town to the world's labyrinthine bureaucracies and corridors of power. Blum approaches his characters with all the intimacy of a friend or colleague, someone who knows their worlds firsthand.
Square entered, with Pistol behind him and Gloves with a smile, the smile that had replaced his earlier stolid stare while he enjoyed fingering foreplay of the rape she knew was to come. She sat, her mind woozy, in the silk upholstered chair. She has just enough time to lean forward before she threw up.
Miguel was the fellow who had hailed me. He lives in an apartment off Coleridge, full of illegals living ten to a room. Poor bastards. Kids all over the place. There's a man who OD'd dying on the ground; kids bouncing their soccer balls right over him. Cops come swinging in in black and whites, red lights like tiger eyes.
Review: "A suspense thriller with brains on steroids.... The riptide of Richard Blum's baroquely magnificent style sweeps the reader along in this brilliant romp. Characters drawn in vivid strokes, enough international intrigue to burn, corruption and greed on the grand scale, and a liberal dash of mayhem... Seasoned, suave Lee Barbour ...could give Deighton's Bernard Samson lessons in the murderous art of international politics and make Bond look like an uncouth boy at seduction and derring-do."
-Terry White, author of Justice Denoted
and Co-author of Cloak and Dagger Fiction
Bio: RICHARD H. A. BLUM is the author of a variety of non-fiction works, including Old Tom, Young Tom and Offshore Haven Banks, Trusts, and Companies, as well as a number of suspense novels under the pseudonym Hartshorne. He has worked for the CIA, was the founder of the Bureau of Strategic Intelligence, U.S. Representative to the United Nations Narcotic Commission, and Senior Consultant to the U.S. Senate on money laundering.
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