What was that? Through the front windshield on his right he saw the face of a girl, an American teenager with her eyes closed and her arms wrapped around a boy’s bare back. He slipped between two parked cars, but a moan broke the silence. Too much could go wrong, and this was guaranteed. He’s got guys’ balls bronzed, you know like baby shoes? So there was no chance he’d use only one barrel and save the other one for holding up the place. You fuck up, you don’t know what he’ll do to you. There’s a lot of money and shit stashed in that house, his friends said. Would he get away from there in time? And why the hell did the landlord have to live on the top floor? He picked up the shotgun at his feet, reached for the shells in his shirt pocket, and loaded them the way he’d been shown.
He’d gotten half payment, enough to get to California, and he wouldn’t risk jail.īut he wanted the whole thousand. The cigarette hadn’t calmed Viseth any, and his muscles tightened.
The silhouette stood at the window, then disappeared.įinally, the signal. Dim light showed through from the back of the fourth-floor apartment, then a light went on in front.
Only the flickering blue glow of a television showed any sign of life on the first floor. Behind the dead light was Bin Chea’s house. He’d paid a dollar for a nine-year-old boy to do what the boy would have done for free: put rocks through a street lamp. Across the street from the park where he stood, a row of tenement houses crowded together behind a row of street lamps. Viseth Kim took a last long drag and filled his lungs with smoke. "Getting Lucky" is a great summer read, a beach book with plenty of sass, saavy and surprise character twists.Ĭopyright © by Bob Sanchez 2011. What I like best about Sanchez's writing is it's obvious he's having fun. David Daniel, award-winning author of The Marble Kite and Reunion Leslie Meier, author of the Lucy Stone mystery series Wonderfully zany, fun, action packed…I highly recommend this book.īob Sanchez hits all the right notes in this zany comedy that will keep you turning the pages-and laughing out loud! Masterful writing with marvelous metaphors. Bob Sanchez writes like Carl Hiaasen on speed…Only a few novels have made me laugh out loud, but this is one of them.Ī madcap criminal caper…Perfect for those who like their eggs scrambled, steak rare and thrillers hammy.
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