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5.5 x 8.5 Paperback |
ISBN: 9781432720827 |
$9.95 |
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FICTION / Thrillers |
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Mar 20, 2008 |
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184 |
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Danny Molito is a comptroller for a printing company in Chicago's Loop. In fall 1961, he inadvertently stumbles upon a secret FBI listening post while trying to deliver a payoff to Da Mob. Both the feds and the hoods start looking for him. In disguise, Danny flees downstate to Homecoming and his alumni reunion at Monmouth College. A tipster phones Da Mob with Danny's whereabouts, the FBI overhears the call, and the chase is on. The campus is roiled with mayhem and murder as thugs invade a seminar on Shakespeare, Chautauqua presentations by Al Capone and Billy Sunday, and the Monmouth-Knox football game. They turn a corn-picker in the Homecoming parade into a murder weapon. The Senior Bench on campus is also a murder scene, with Danny as the intended victim. He and his classmate Kitty, a Chicago lawyer, face a showdown with Da Mob. Danny and Kitty use themselves as bait. Backdrop for the scene is a replica of the Iron Curtain donated by an alumnus who was a former Hungarian Freedom Fighter.
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I hate Mondays. I shamble down the hallway to the bathroom, towel over one shoulder, thinking about the big week ahead. It is October. The first quarter of our 1961-62 fiscal year just ended Sept. 30, and I have to do a test run on the quarterly reports due out Oct. 16. The Prairie Press is running short on cash, too. I’ll have to lean on old man Seybold to pressure outstanding accounts to pony up. Also due today are the final touches on my article for Commerce Clearing House.
As I near the bathroom, my adrenaline pulses. He’s there, lying in wait. I’m sure of it. I throw the towel down on the carpet and go into my karate stance. Hands poised like cleavers, I leap into the bathroom and jump into my crouch. “Hasaaah!” I shout. He is there, somehow already in position, hands up, his mouth open as he no doubt hurls a ferocious challenge. I go into my Rising Chicken routine, and he responds in kind. The small room is a blur of flying fists and feet.
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About John S. Niblock
John S. Niblock, a former journalist and CEO of two statewide nonprofit corporations, is a native of Chicago. He is a graduate of Monmouth College, where he was editor of the student newspaper. He now lives in Carmel, CA, and writes for a trade weekly. He has scripted many TV and radio productions and published hundreds of articles, but Danny and Da Mob is his first novel.
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