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The Don Con
Published by Pace Press
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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About The Book
The Mafia comes to Comic-Con in this fast-paced suspense caper and outrageous pop culture satire.
Joey Volpe hit the high watermark of his acting career when he played a small role as a mobster on The Sopranos. If you blinked, you missed it. But now he’s unemployed, broke, and forced to make a living by signing autographs at pop-culture fan conventions, or “Fan-Cons,” for $35 a pop. His lack of income, along with his chronic womanizing, has put his marriage at risk, too. But Joey’s life gets even worse when real mobster Tony Rosetti shows up in the autograph line with a plan to rob the next Fan-Con—an offer Joey can’t refuse. When the heist goes awry, Joey has a beef with Rosetti and two long years to plan. Partnered with a smooth-talking con man, Joey is using all his acting skills on new projects: Revenge. Money. And saving his marriage.
Joey Volpe hit the high watermark of his acting career when he played a small role as a mobster on The Sopranos. If you blinked, you missed it. But now he’s unemployed, broke, and forced to make a living by signing autographs at pop-culture fan conventions, or “Fan-Cons,” for $35 a pop. His lack of income, along with his chronic womanizing, has put his marriage at risk, too. But Joey’s life gets even worse when real mobster Tony Rosetti shows up in the autograph line with a plan to rob the next Fan-Con—an offer Joey can’t refuse. When the heist goes awry, Joey has a beef with Rosetti and two long years to plan. Partnered with a smooth-talking con man, Joey is using all his acting skills on new projects: Revenge. Money. And saving his marriage.
Product Details
- Publisher: Pace Press (April 1, 2019)
- Length: 250 pages
- ISBN13: 9781610353366
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"You're in for a wild romp through pop culture peppered with mobsters and mayhem in Richard Armstrong's terrific new novel The Don Con. The book's smart, witty, and a joy to read from first page to last ... a roller-coaster ride of a novel!" -Donna Baier Stein, author of Sympathetic People and The Silver Baron's Wife
"Richard Armstrong does it again. The Don Con lets loose on acting and stardom, Shakespeare, the mob, prison, revenge, redemption, and a dog named Gizmo. With non-stop one-liners, Armstrong takes his place with Henny Youngman and Rodney Dangerfield. And the "Con" in the title is even a triple entendre. An amazing performance. Read it! You'll love it." -Deke Castleman, author of Whale Hunt in the Desert
"You're in for a wild romp through pop culture peppered with mobsters and mayhem in Richard Armstrong's terrific new novel The Don Con. The book's smart, witty, and a joy to read from first page to last ... a roller-coaster ride of a novel!"
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The Don Con
Published by Pace Press
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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