BAMBOOZLE! - Softcover

Lyons, Allan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0595378021 ISBN 13: 9780595378029

Publisher: iUniverse, 2005

Synopsis

Dana Quigly Thornbladt sits hunched over a strange laptop computer, the room in darkness save for the light dancing across the screen sending eerie shadows over her face. Under her thin cotton robe, she is naked; her feet are bare. Her lip is raw. The chill creeping in through the half-open window bites at her flesh raising tiny pimples. Yet she is sweating.Password? Why no password into his computer but a password into BAcct? A smile crept across her lips. This was better than Party Bridge.Beads of sweat began dripping into her eyes. Damn! Again and again her fingers flew over the keyboard. All of a sudden, Bingo! The screen jumped: Account balance: $21,792,500.00! Ouch! She almost screamed. Shit. Her lip! The son of a bitch. She ran her tongue over her lip tasting the blood. Christ! First National Bank of Grand Cayman! Grand Cayman! The Club was a mob front.A long-harbored dream of revenge takes shape. A Bamboozle! One of the coups she executed at the bridge table. For it to succeed, to tap into the money, she'd need a patsy, a guy with a boat.And so begins a tale of double-dealing, Dana charting each step on coups she pulled off at the bridge table and all but ends when the tables are turned, when she realizes she could have lost something she always dreamed of finding, and it is then she pulls one more trick from her sleeve.

About this title

Synopsis

Abused by her stepfather, distraught by the insensitive fumblings of college jocks, Demi wrapped herself in a cocoon, sad that her dreams of turning the tables on men are limited to coups she executes at bridge tables. When her mother falls ill with cancer, she is wrenched from her cloister and summoned to Boston to help care for her. There, she takes a temporary job with the Back Bay Club. Months into the job, her boss asks her to Nantucket to work on books at his beach house. That night, ignoring her pleas, he forces himself on her. Sickened, while he sleeps, searching for party bridge in his computer she discovers an offshore bank account. The Club is a front. Long-harbored thoughts of revenge take shape. The Bamboozle! One of the coups she executed at the bridge table. For it to succeed, to steal his money, she needs a patsy with a boat, a man she can scam into assisting her. And so begins a tale of double-dealing, Demi charting each step on coups at the bridge table.and all but ends when she finds not only that the tables were turned, but that she could have lost something she always dreamed of finding.

About the Author

Allan S. Lyons, a long-time Life Master at bridge, has been a copywriter, advertising director, marketing director, lecturer, editor, guest speaker and award winning Wall Street mutual fund manager. The author of two books, his short stories have appeared in both newspapers and magazines.

Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0595378021
• ISBN 13: 9780595378029
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 270