A Self Made Man: Bootleggers On Ice

By Stuart Goldbarg

Strange crime capers multiply in 1933. Congress acts to end Prohibition, and the Fairey Gang fights to destroy Congress. FDR closes the banks to save America's finances, but crooked bankers hate it. Wildly inventive and daffy businessman B. Lyall Mastemah takes on bigots, tax cheaters, a lovelorn banker, a larval dictator, three murderous gangsters, two hard-boiled lawmen, a pair of innocent young lovers, and a herd of legendary Duesenberg automobiles. While the Great Depression rules like a savage tyrant, B. Lyall says that America is the one place where gold hangs from every tree, and a new car waits ready at every curb. He has the confidence to pluck the wealth of the earth, or at least to pluck the wealth of ruthless bootleggers. He and his two unlikely and unwitting co-conspirators, Ben, the aspiring priest, and Ismail, the aspiring opera god, seize the day and face danger, sudden violent death, and resurrection, to experience life astonishingly renewed and unimaginably enriched. Mastemah inspires Ben with the confidence he lacks, and invents the job of the unemployed Ismail's dreams. But, can the secretive banker and Duesenberg enthusiast foil the Fairey Gang's evil plans? Can Andy and Maddy escape her Wisconsin-hating dad, and get hitched? Can Roscoe find a grave with a nice view? Can we ever get a drink without breaking the law? Can we all live and die and live again happily ever after? And where's that ship that disappeared? We won't know until the last pages, for things are never what they seem in the America of the SELF MADE MAN B. Lyall Mastemah.From frozen Indianapolis to sunny Bermuda, hilarious surprises lurk at every turn for the SELF MADE MAN and you.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479196061
• ISBN13: 9781479196067
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"