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The Artisanal Grifter

Author : George Bixley
Publisher : Dagmar Miura
ISBN 13 : 195113043X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book The Artisanal Grifter written by George Bixley and published by Dagmar Miura. This book was released on 2020-09-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don’t mess with the hothead—or he might just mess with you. Slater Ibáñez is only interested in two kinds of guys: the ones he wants to punch, and the ones he sleeps with. Things get interesting when they start to overlap. A freelance investigator, Slater trolls the dark side of Los Angeles, rooting out insurance fraud, not afraid to use whatever means necessary to get things done, and not about to hold back with his fists. A queer antihero for a new age, Slater walks the line between ordinary life and the frayed fringes of society, keeping his balance with the back-channel support he gets from his idiot cop ex-boyfriend, Conrad, and regular squeeze Andy. Pulled into negotiating with a blackmailer as a favor to his mother, Slater soon finds there’s more going on than just her old friend’s inability to keep it in his pants. More victims of the grift turn up, including Etta, an educator with secrets of her own who teams up with Slater to run a con on one of the key players. Unraveling the mystery leads Slater into an old-school photo lab, a late-night stakeout in a bar wearing disguise drag, and pugilistic encounters with a button man and a sleazy property developer. Zeroing in on the extent of the grift, Slater’s plan to plant evidence—the only way to make sure the right person gets arrested—inevitably goes awry, leaving him with a dilemma that strikes to the heart of his already tenuous ethics.

The Saucer-Heads

Author : George Bixley
Publisher : Dagmar Miura
ISBN 13 : 1956744975
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book The Saucer-Heads written by George Bixley and published by Dagmar Miura. This book was released on 2023-08-04 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don’t mess with the hothead—or he might just mess with you. Slater Ibáñez is only interested in two kinds of guys: the ones he wants to punch, and the ones he sleeps with. Things get interesting when they start to overlap. Hired to track down Finley, the missing boyfriend of tech worker Truax, Slater soon discovers that the job isn’t really what he was asked to do. The search for Finley leads him to an arcane book and the flying-saucer subculture, where a deep dive takes Slater out into the Mojave Desert, leaving him unsure of the precise boundaries of reality itself. With input from Doris and his operatives, and begrudging help from his romantic partner, Pike, to weasel him out of a jam, Slater cuts a dogged path to sort out what Truax really wants, and what Finley is really up to, all the while juggling high explosives, navigating his deepening narrative complex with Pike, and never failing to throw that punch. A freelance investigator, Slater trolls the dark side of Los Angeles, rooting out insurance fraud, not afraid to use whatever means necessary to get things done, and not about to hold back with his fists. A queer antihero for a new age, Slater walks the line between ordinary life and the frayed fringes of society, keeping his balance with the back-channel support he gets from main squeeze Pike, business partner Max, and operatives Andy and Etta.

Shrink in the Shadows

Author : George Bixley
Publisher : Dagmar Miura
ISBN 13 : 1951130626
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Shrink in the Shadows written by George Bixley and published by Dagmar Miura. This book was released on 2021-03-21 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don’t mess with the hothead—or he might just mess with you. Slater Ibáñez is only interested in two kinds of guys: the ones he wants to punch, and the ones he sleeps with. Things get interesting when they start to overlap. A freelance investigator, Slater trolls the dark side of Los Angeles, rooting out insurance fraud, not afraid to use whatever means necessary to get things done, and not about to hold back with his fists. A queer antihero for a new age, Slater walks the line between ordinary life and the frayed fringes of society, keeping his balance with the back-channel support he gets from his idiot cop ex-boyfriend, Conrad, and regular squeeze Andy. Hired by banker Tad to track down a missing shrink, Slater soon finds there’s more going on, like the cryptic list Bianca left in her briefcase. An excursion to Bianca’s college leads to an intriguing ex-husband, a conspiracy theorist’s blog posts, and a suburban bungalow that’s been thoroughly sanitized, but Bianca remains elusive. Slater goes undercover with a gardening crew, and infiltrates a police investigation at a seedy hotel, but what’s the connection to Bianca’s list? Meanwhile his field operative, Etta, has taken up renovating the office as a part-time gig, bringing a degree of chaos for Slater and his business partner, Max. As the conspiracy theories get more bizarre, Slater gets closer to the truth, uncovering why Bianca is lying low, and maybe even why Tad has been playing him all along. Trolling the underbelly of the city and the high-desert wilderness, Slater zeroes in on the truth, never hesitating to hit on guys, throw a punch, or demand answers.

Brawl in Bardo

Author : George Bixley
Publisher : Dagmar Miura
ISBN 13 : 1951130030
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Brawl in Bardo written by George Bixley and published by Dagmar Miura. This book was released on 2019-07-13 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don’t mess with the hothead—or he might just mess with you. Slater Ibáñez is only interested in two kinds of guys: the ones he wants to punch, and the ones he sleeps with. Things get interesting when they start to overlap. A freelance investigator, Slater trolls the dark side of Los Angeles, rooting out insurance fraud, not afraid to use whatever means necessary to get things done, and not about to hold back with his fists. A queer antihero for a new age, Slater walks the line between ordinary life and the frayed fringes of society, keeping his balance with the back-channel support he gets from his idiot cop ex-boyfriend, Conrad, and regular squeeze Andy. Helping his business partner, Max, track down a bail jumper, Slater spends the night in a dusty Mojave Desert town. Things look different in the liminal space between LA and Vegas, like the bardo between lives, and Slater soon finds himself stalking a sleazy dermatologist who’s in a custody battle with another croaker for a seemingly worthless statue. With high-tech surveillance and a stealthy late-night break-in, bouncing between the metropolis and Sin City, Slater zeroes in on the truth while navigating some irksome emotional entanglements and his own sobriety.

Project Chartreuse

Author : George Bixley
Publisher : Dagmar Miura
ISBN 13 : 1951130812
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Project Chartreuse written by George Bixley and published by Dagmar Miura. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don’t mess with the hothead—or he might just mess with you. Slater Ibáñez is only interested in two kinds of guys: the ones he wants to punch, and the ones he sleeps with. Things get interesting when they start to overlap. A freelance investigator, Slater trolls the dark side of Los Angeles, rooting out insurance fraud, not afraid to use whatever means necessary to get things done, and not about to hold back with his fists. A queer antihero for a new age, Slater walks the line between ordinary life and the frayed fringes of society, keeping his balance with the back-channel support he gets from his idiot cop ex-boyfriend, Conrad, and regular squeeze Andy. On an insurance job, Slater’s hunt for missing beneficiary Daniel takes him from wrangling the hardscrabble grifters of Skid Row to infiltrating the sleazy pieds-à-terre and private jets of the city’s moneyed elite. Eventually the quest takes Slater to New Mexico, where he rents an old pickup and revisits his equestrian past in pursuit of a shadowy group dedicated to flying saucers. Galliform, an old quarry, pops up in the sprawling desert, and Slater has to navigate around law enforcement, not quite willing to collaborate with them but intent on not winding up in the hoosegow. Hooking up with all the wrong guys and drinking way too much, Slater gradually starts to see what’s really going on. As Galliform increases the pressure and things heat up, Slater has to decide between doing what’s right and preserving his own neck.

From a Desert Playa

Author : George Bixley
Publisher : Dagmar Miura
ISBN 13 : 1956744290
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book From a Desert Playa written by George Bixley and published by Dagmar Miura. This book was released on 2022-03-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don’t mess with the hothead—or he might just mess with you. Slater Ibáñez is only interested in two kinds of guys: the ones he wants to punch, and the ones he sleeps with. Things get interesting when they start to overlap. A freelance investigator, Slater trolls the dark side of Los Angeles, rooting out insurance fraud, not afraid to use whatever means necessary to get things done, and not about to hold back with his fists. A queer antihero for a new age, Slater walks the line between ordinary life and the frayed fringes of society, keeping his balance with the back-channel support he gets from his idiot cop ex-boyfriend, Conrad, and regular squeeze Andy. Trying to sort out the cause of shipping delays at a mine in a remote part of Nevada, Slater grills the driver Bender and the armed guard Vitale, responsible for trucking the shipments to the city, and ferrets out some of their secrets. Not sure whether the enigmatic Hernán is a birthright airhead or an exquisitely talented con artist, against his better judgment Slater winds up in the sack with him. Finally heading to the mining camp in a cargo plane, Slater and his operative Etta meet more of the players and see some strange things in the vast empty desert. The trip back to LA takes an unexpected turn, leaving Slater with a dilemma that threatens his very survival.

The Dark Shill

Author : George Bixley
Publisher : Dagmar Miura
ISBN 13 : 1942267614
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Dark Shill written by George Bixley and published by Dagmar Miura. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

That First Heady Burn

Author : George Bixley
Publisher : Dagmar Miura
ISBN 13 : 1942267460
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book That First Heady Burn written by George Bixley and published by Dagmar Miura. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Hillside Roble

Author : George Bixley
Publisher : Dagmar Miura
ISBN 13 : 194226772X
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Hillside Roble written by George Bixley and published by Dagmar Miura. This book was released on 2018-08-10 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slater Ibáñez is only interested in two kinds of guys: the ones he wants to punch, and the ones he sleeps with. Things get interesting when they start to overlap. A freelance investigator, Slater trolls the dark side of Los Angeles, rooting out insurance fraud, not afraid to use whatever means necessary to get things done, and not about to hold back with his fists. A queer antihero for a new age, Slater walks the line between ordinary life and the frayed fringes of society, keeping his balance with the jobs that his employer, Della, throws his way, and the back-channel support he gets from his idiot cop ex-boyfriend, Conrad, and regular squeeze Andy. Investigating a million-dollar heist at a gallery in the Arts District, Slater can’t get a face-to-face with the owner, Eli, until he applies a little pressure, which leads to an evening invite to a tony mansion in the hills. Eli turns out to be a minor celebrity, physically flawless but obsessed with his own image, and flaky in that uniquely LA way. Gallery manager Pilar and her girlfriend are hiding something too, but Slater works to uncover the dirt with some surveillance and subterfuge, briefly posing as a straight guy to get some answers. Eli’s nephew Ty seems guileless at first, but what is he really up to at his massage-parlor job? Join Slater as he closes in on the truth, never hesitating to use his fists or his libido to cut through the secrets and deception.

The Window-Shade Job

Author : George Bixley
Publisher : Dagmar Miura
ISBN 13 : 1951130189
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book The Window-Shade Job written by George Bixley and published by Dagmar Miura. This book was released on 2020-01-05 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don’t mess with the hothead—or he might just mess with you. Slater Ibáñez is only interested in two kinds of guys: the ones he wants to punch, and the ones he sleeps with. Things get interesting when they start to overlap. A freelance investigator, Slater trolls the dark side of Los Angeles, rooting out insurance fraud, not afraid to use whatever means necessary to get things done, and not about to hold back with his fists. A queer antihero for a new age, Slater walks the line between ordinary life and the frayed fringes of society, keeping his balance with the back-channel support he gets from his idiot cop ex-boyfriend, Conrad, and regular squeeze Andy. Pulled in on a window-shade job to gather intel on a cheating spouse, Slater discovers there’s another observer on the case, prowling around the backyard with a camera. In the course of tracking him down, along with his target’s paramour, he soon finds out there’s more going on than run-of-the-mill infidelity. The bunco accountant sleeps with anyone he can persuade, regardless of gender, including Slater. And what is Tato really up to in his seedy little shipping store? Dark secrets come to the surface, and with help from a gallery clerk, Slater starts to put the pieces together, all the while trying to stay sober, keep one step ahead of the law, and sort out his feelings for Andy. In a bid to protect the naive European caught up in the intrigue, he comes up with an audacious plan that might just save the guy—and make Slater some serious bank.

A Stack of Sawbucks

Author : George Bixley
Publisher : Dagmar Miura
ISBN 13 : 1942267673
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book A Stack of Sawbucks written by George Bixley and published by Dagmar Miura. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Trail of the Blue Agave

Author : George Bixley
Publisher : Dagmar Miura
ISBN 13 : 195674469X
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book Trail of the Blue Agave written by George Bixley and published by Dagmar Miura. This book was released on 2023-01-05 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don’t mess with the hothead—or he might just mess with you. Slater Ibáñez is only interested in two kinds of guys: the ones he wants to punch, and the ones he sleeps with. Things get interesting when they start to overlap. A freelance investigator, Slater trolls the dark side of Los Angeles, rooting out insurance fraud, not afraid to use whatever means necessary to get things done, and not about to hold back with his fists. A queer antihero for a new age, Slater walks the line between ordinary life and the frayed fringes of society, keeping his balance with the back-channel support he gets from main squeeze Pike, business partner Max, and operatives Andy and Etta. Pulled in on a case by a colleague from his former life in the landscaping world, Slater uses illicit surveillance gear to track a stolen blue agave to a seedy dive bar, where the patrons are not what they seem. Working undercover at a shady tequila factory, he starts to figure out what’s really going on, and uncovers a deeper grift preying on newcomers in Koreatown. Frustrated by his inability to shut down the racket, Slater collaborates with some of the victims, temporarily distracting himself by playing best man at a wedding, only to face an inadvertent turn of events that might send him to the hoosegow for good.

A Desperate Frame-up

Author : George Bixley
Publisher : Dagmar Miura
ISBN 13 : 1956744606
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book A Desperate Frame-up written by George Bixley and published by Dagmar Miura. This book was released on 2022-08-29 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don’t mess with the hothead—or he might just mess with you. Slater Ibáñez is only interested in two kinds of guys: the ones he wants to punch, and the ones he sleeps with. Things get interesting when they start to overlap. A freelance investigator, Slater trolls the dark side of Los Angeles, rooting out insurance fraud, not afraid to use whatever means necessary to get things done, and not about to hold back with his fists. A queer antihero for a new age, Slater walks the line between ordinary life and the frayed fringes of society, keeping his balance with the back-channel support he gets from his idiot cop ex-boyfriend, Conrad, and regular squeeze Andy. Hired by a desk jockey to stalk her ex-husband and dig up dirt, Slater shadows the brawler Harold and his kid, trying in vain not to get too close and get made. Harold’s pushback sends Slater into a more compelling mystery, about Lance, a crypto bro who’s gone missing with a whole lot of dough. Working undercover on a film set, Slater tangles with aging child actors, the surreal world of reality television, and a bare-faced frame-up orchestrated by a cold-blooded player. As he struggles to stay one step ahead of an arms smuggler and the feds that are in pursuit of him, Slater also has to figure out how to navigate his burgeoning “narrative complex” love affair, and how to renegotiate his relationship with Andy. Never hesitating to slap a lowlife around, Slater follows Lance’s faint trail, trying to determine whether he’s alive somewhere enjoying his hoard or planted in a shallow grave in the mountains, all the while trying not to wind up there himself.

Lazarillo de Tormes and The Grifter (El Buscon)

Author : Francisco de Quevedo
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 162466346X
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (246 download)

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Download or read book Lazarillo de Tormes and The Grifter (El Buscon) written by Francisco de Quevedo and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An elegant, precise, and accessible modern-English rendering of the two best examples of the early modern picaresque genre: the paradigmatic Lazarillo de Tormes and Quevedo's mordant El Buscón. Frye's translations are triumphant, capturing the cadence of popular early modern speech while remaining faithful to the original texts; his notes illuminate the diverse contexts in which the texts were written. Frye gives careful attention throughout to the historical background that propelled these two parallel but different monuments of Golden Age Spanish literature." --Teofilo Ruiz, UCLA

The Grifter, the Poet, and the Runaway Train

Author : Geoffrey Douglas
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493041495
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Grifter, the Poet, and the Runaway Train written by Geoffrey Douglas and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over 20 years, Geoffrey Douglas has written feature-length pieces for Yankee magazine that chronicle extraordinary stories that have taken place in New England. Some have been about public events, widely reported––a Maine town turning against itself under the weight of an influx of Somalis, a fatal fire in Worcester MA, a Vermont reporter’s defense of marriage equality. Others, have been more private, the stories of men and women surviving, facing choices, living life––a small-time jockey scratching out an existence at county-fair racetracks; the long, sad fall of a Maine lottery winner, a poet’s love affair with his town. The best of these, taken together, make for a rich and updated collection of New England portraits: mostly ordinary lives, upended by choice or chance, turned suddenly, unexpectedly remarkable.

Confident Women

Author : Tori Telfer
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062956043
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Confident Women written by Tori Telfer and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoroughly entertaining and darkly humorous roundup of history’s notorious but often forgotten female con artists and their bold, outrageous scams—by the acclaimed author of Lady Killers. From Elizabeth Holmes and Anna Delvey to Frank Abagnale and Charles Ponzi, audacious scams and charismatic scammers continue to intrigue us as a culture. As Tori Telfer reveals in Confident Women, the art of the con has a long and venerable tradition, and its female practitioners are some of the best—or worst. In the 1700s in Paris, Jeanne de Saint-Rémy scammed the royal jewelers out of a necklace made from six hundred and forty-seven diamonds by pretending she was best friends with Queen Marie Antoinette. In the mid-1800s, sisters Kate and Maggie Fox began pretending they could speak to spirits and accidentally started a religious movement that was soon crawling with female con artists. A gal calling herself Loreta Janeta Velasquez claimed to be a soldier and convinced people she worked for the Confederacy—or the Union, depending on who she was talking to. Meanwhile, Cassie Chadwick was forging paperwork and getting banks to loan her upwards of $40,000 by telling people she was Andrew Carnegie’s illegitimate daughter. In the 1900s, a 40something woman named Margaret Lydia Burton embezzled money all over the country and stole upwards of forty prized show dogs, while a few decades later, a teenager named Roxie Ann Rice scammed the entire NFL. And since the death of the Romanovs, women claiming to be Anastasia have been selling their stories to magazines. What about today? Spoiler alert: these “artists” are still conning. Confident Women asks the provocative question: Where does chutzpah intersect with a uniquely female pathology—and how were these notorious women able to so spectacularly dupe and swindle their victims?

Future's End

Author : Jerry Dozier
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1438952198
Total Pages : 1146 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Future's End written by Jerry Dozier and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 1146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howard Kinkeid, the newest CEO of the Falcon Corporation has his work cut out for him. Not only does he need to build the trust of his corporation, but he also must rebuild the trust that the North American Alliance had once placed in Falcon before the previous CEO nearly severed the ties to their host nation. He needs a team of specialized agents that he can trust. He got just what he needed with the Wrecking Crew. Bushman: The leader of the crew and their long range expert. He is a career soldier and one of Kinkeid's best friends. Grifter: A wasteland gunslinger who turned to the life of a bounty hunter. He is recruited to be the group's tracker. Ling Fa: This little fireball is the group's resident computer and technology expert. Cheyanne Ryder: She is the Wrecking Crew's hotshot pilot and resident troublemaker. Sabrina Knight- The heavy weapons expert who puts the Wreck into the Wrecking Crew. She is also the bearer of a secret that will soon affect all mankind. The Wrecking Crew embarks on an adventure that takes them from the skyscrapers of Angel City, to the wastelands of North America, to the mines of Mars and beyond. As Kinkeid works to redeem his beloved corporation, his actions are being watched from beyond the boundaries of our solar system.