Six Under Par

by Bill Lane

Old Israel Kolkowitz is about to breathe his last, and his nephew Barry sets off to make final funeral arrangements -- only to discover that Brooklyn has run out of places to bury its dead. What to do?Well, there’s a golf course for sale in Dyker Heights and a golf course has lots of open space just sitting there doing nothing. What Barry does next sets off a chain of events that creates a holy uproar throughout the entire borough.Along the way, he runs afoul of a powerful televangelist who uses Barry as a scapegoat to fend off a Senate investigation into his flagrant misappropriation of church funds. He locks horns with a Democratic machine pol with a closetful of skeletons who is fighting for his political life.Mix them all together, add in a young newspaper reporter with dreams of Pulitzer glory, and you have the ingredients for Six Under Par, a cautionary tale of power and ambition, chutzpah and greed.

167 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 15, 2019