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Get Rich Quick
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Author: Peter Doyle
Title: Get Rich Quick
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 256
Release Date: 2012-08-07
Details: Meet Billy Glasheen, a fresh voice in crime fiction. It's Sydney, the 1950s, and Billy's trying to make a living, any way he can. Luckily, he's a likeable guy, with a gift for masterminding elaborate scenarioswhether it's a gambling scam, transporting a fortune in stolen jewels, or keeping the wheels greased during a hair-raising tour by Little Richard and his rock n' roll entourage.
But trouble follows close behindbecause Billy's schemes always seem to interfere with the plans of Sydney's big players, an unholy trinity of crooks, bent cops, and politicians on the make. Suddenly he's in the frame for murder, and on the run from the police, who'll happily send him down for it. Billy's no sleuth, but there's nowhere to turn for help. To prove it wasn't him, he'll have to find the real killer.
Set in Sydney in the period following World War II, Doyle's novelsfeaturing the irresistible Billy Glasheenbrilliantly explore the criminal underworld, high-level political corruption, and the postwar explosion of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll.
EAN: 9781891241246
Package Dimensions: Height: 7.5 Inches, Length: 5 Inches, Weight: 0.58863423954 Pounds, Width: 0.75 Inches
