Ringer
A Crime Novel
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- 11,99 €
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- 11,99 €
Description de l’éditeur
Charged with recovering a sacred relic for his La Paz diocese, Morty Martinez hunts down a gold ring that rests on the finger of New York City billionaire Robert Tyson Grant. The holy quest lands Morty squarely in murderous cross plots between the billionaire and his tabloid-prone stepdaughter, Purity. Grant's conniving girlfriend, a decapitation-happy hit man, and an avaricious fortune teller have their own agendas that put Morty at the center of a sensational murder trial in Mexico. All as told by Morty the night before his execution.
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At the outset of Wiprud's rollicking sequel to Feelers, former Brooklyn house cleaner and endearing womanizer Morty Martinez now independently wealthy and living in Baja California agrees to travel to New York City on Fr. Gomez Entropica's behalf to persuade 65-year-old billionaire Robert Tyson Grant, who possesses a holy relic, a gold ring once worn by a legendary conquistador, to return the sacred item to its rightful place in a La Paz orphanage. The priest is confident Grant will oblige. Once in New York, Martinez becomes entangled in numerous murder plots involving Grant, his conniving mistress, his party girl stepdaughter, an opportunistic fortune-teller, and a bumbling assassin obsessed with decapitation. Told from Martinez's jail cell the night before he's to be executed, this relentlessly amusing novel is powered by a cast of decidedly quirky characters and its idiosyncratic narrator's frequent digressions (like his defense of breast implants). Fans of the comic crime fiction of Donald E. Westlake and Charles Willeford will find a lot to like.
