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A Brief Glimpse by Paul Di Filippo
CASH. Dollars. Dinero. Euros. Pounds. Rubles. Yen. Buckaroos. Megabucks. Moolah. Smackers. Bread. Simoleans. Spondulix! Money makes the world go 'round. But Rory Honeyman's money makes the world turn faster. Spinning out of control, in fact.
From the Great Plains to Mexico City, to Canada, to Europe, to — to Hoboken...? Yes, Hoboken.
Rory's life's peculiar adventures seem to grind to a halt in Hoboken, only to suddenly lurch wildly in a new, unexpected direction. And it's all because he has unwittingly created a new species of cash cow.
Rory must go where no beekeeper has gone before, armed only with a handful of beer nuts and an endless supply of blank checks that never bounce. Guided by an albino, egged on by a saline-snorting sandwich gourmet, misappropriated by a devious banker, Rory is facing long odds.
Will he go down fighting or be saved by the belle?
Rory's track record with women is remarkable, but does little to inspire confidence: that cute little tightrope-walker and her contortionist ex-boyfriend... that sultry half-Japanese artist who left him to share the albino's bed... that lively pair of kinky lesbians...
With Rory Honeyman, it's always been about money and women. Women and money. No, maybe it's just women; by the time Hoboken has finished with Rory, money will be the least of his worries.
Spondulix is available in one acid-free-paper edition designed to match Ciphers and Joe's Liver: a signed-&-numbered collector's hardcover, limited to 300 copies, Smythe-sewn, full-cloth, with full-color dustjacket, interior illustrations, and cloth ribbon bookmark.
You may order this book from Mark
V. Ziesing.