The Money Game
By Michael A. Smith
Genre: Urban Crime Thriller
SYNOPSIS:
The Money Game is an
urban crime thriller in which the main characters are forced into a
kidnapping/ransom plot that disrupts their individual plans to begin life
anew. Marshon Johnson, gambling kingpin
of the East Side, and a benevolent pimp, had planned to relocate to an idyllic
Caribbean island. There, he and his best
friend, Richey Stanton, an aspiring actor, barfly and neurotic, would create an
innovative gambling operation that includes a “private lottery.” Their lady friends have other ideas, however. Gail Thomas, a successful financial
executive, wants Marshon to use his ill-begotten gains to become a respectable
businessman. Richey’s significant other,
Carmen Salazar, proposes that she and Richey form a traveling entertainment
troupe. Ace Semanski, racist and
psychopath, has his own plan hatched and perfected in prison. That script calls for various “buffers,”
including a role for each of his new “friends,” including Kandie Givens, a
needy single mother of three, and “Country” Long, a mentally challenged factory
worker. As the kidnapping unfolds, it
generates a vortex of violence, betrayal, death and confusion. The Money Game is a study of the critical
influences that shape lives and life — childhood trauma, adult goals, social
pressures, love, greed, cultural kitsch, hatred, wisdom, faith and fate.
AUTHOR BIO
Michael A. Smith is the
author of six published novels, all described on his Website,
www.goodnovels.org. He began his career
as a newspaper reporter, and was editor of the Golden, Colorado Daily
Transcript. He also was Associate
Director, Illinois Board of Higher Education, and Press Secretary, Congressman
Richard Durbin. He is a member of the
Authors Guild.
Although the book started out very slow for me, the story picked up to a fast paced and intense thriller.
The author captured an unique story with many sides whereby each decision made entangles a chain reaction among the characters. Real Intense Human Emotions we can relate to. At times I Simply did not know what to expect next and that made the book more fascinating to me. A Tangled web of Greed.
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