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.
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