Apparent Wind
by Dallas Murphy
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Pub Date Feb 03 2015 | Archive Date Apr 15 2015
Description
Dennis “Doom” Lewis is a small-time conman who paid a big-price: a five-year prison sentence for forging a novel by Eleanor Roosevelt that became an international bestseller. He gets an early release to attend his crooked father’s funeral…and discovers that he’s inherited a sailboat and a Florida town that’s sinking into the sea.
But the town is on prime real estate that two warring developers want badly enough to have already killed his father for and will go to outrageous lengths to snatch away from him. Dodging bombs, corrupt cops, and crazed killers, Doom teams up with a Nyquil-chugging history professor, two documentary film-makers named Anne, and a drop-dead-sexy scuba instructor and her Seminole grandmother in an elaborate plot to swindle the swindlers and save himself from fatally living up to his nick-name.
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Advance Praise
"What John Irving or Kurt Vonnegut might produce if they were to write a novel about crime"
"A flamboyant, comic nightmare. The author's best inventions are his characters -- gaudy as comic-strip villains, unpredictable as ancient gods and given to mighty mock-heroic combat of epic consequence. There is fun here, but also real fury in Mr. Murphy’s raging imagination"
"Dallas Murphy is right up there with Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen. I loved it"
"Masterful. Apparent Wind is much more than an excellent crime novel"
"A loopy, cynical, romantic caper novel. Daring and funny and smart"
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781941298145 |
| PRICE | $13.99 (USD) |
Featured Reviews
Trina P, Reviewer
I absolutely loved this book!!!! This was one of the funniest books that I have read in a long time. I could not put it down. Please do not pass up a chance to read this book. I will definitely be looking for more books by this author.
Philip B, Reviewer
Pure entertainment, descriptive creative writing though some departure from facts which has no impact on the story. Characters from convicts to con men with a full complement of thugs to implement the devious deeds, a corrupt sheriff and of course the requisite female love interest who will become the damsel in distress. Knowing full well this is fiction yet it never cease to amaze me of the scheming of those who seek to gain by deception. Even if it is fiction the writer had the creativity to come up with the plot and kudos to the author for giving we readers an experience sure to deprive us of our much needed sleep.
Cozy Book R, Reviewer
This is pure reading delight! Its a very well written book of great comic characters so well described that entertain throughout the book with a series of circumstances that are equally funny. Its the prefect book for a afternoon of reading fun. I loved the funny Florida local characters along with the location. What a wild, comic absolutely fun ride from page one. I adore this book for pure reading fun. Well Done Dallas Murphy. Thank you for the advance reading copy.
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