The Scared Stiff
Description
Masterfully devised, wildly comic, and nonstop suspenseful, this madcap tale maps the consequences of an amiable schemer’s notion that he might be better off dead—and then the more alarming discovery that he’s not dead enough. Con artistry having failed yet again to make Barry Lee rich quick, he finds himself with only one asset left: his life. Or rather, the insurance on it. So he and his beautiful South American wife, Lola, set out to play the globalization of the insurance industry to their fiduciary advantage. In Lola’s native Guerrara, where corruption comes dis...
ISBN(s)
0786709545, 9780786709540
