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ATM
When Lynn O’Brien withdraws $400 from an ATM one morning she glances at her receipt, certain that her checking account balance will now be $892.24. But it isn’t!
Instead, it is $5,000,892.24. FIVE MILLION DOLLARS! Lynn’s fantastic discovery sends her off on a rousing adventure that races through the pages of ATM, a modern day fantasy and romantic comedy of errors, as she and a young research scientist who has had a similar, unbelievable windfall, track down their anonymous benefactor. Along the way, government agents of a fictional North African country, Telámia, abduct the pair, after themselves meeting with a series of chuckle-eliciting misadventures before whisking their captives to their leader’s presidential palace. Eventually returned to Madeira, Lynn and David pursue their quest, surreptitiously followed by the Telámian agents, who in turn are tailed by a CIA operative when an informant reports the palace meeting. Colossal misunderstandings set the stage for humor, while interactions among Lynn and David, the foreign agents, GeneralAláz, multi-millionaire Jonathan Kingsley, Academy Award-winning Hollywood actress Natalie Forthright, Lynn’s husband Patrick, and other memorable characters elicit a tear or two at the reality underlying the page-turner plot.
Instead, it is $5,000,892.24. FIVE MILLION DOLLARS! Lynn’s fantastic discovery sends her off on a rousing adventure that races through the pages of ATM, a modern day fantasy and romantic comedy of errors, as she and a young research scientist who has had a similar, unbelievable windfall, track down their anonymous benefactor. Along the way, government agents of a fictional North African country, Telámia, abduct the pair, after themselves meeting with a series of chuckle-eliciting misadventures before whisking their captives to their leader’s presidential palace. Eventually returned to Madeira, Lynn and David pursue their quest, surreptitiously followed by the Telámian agents, who in turn are tailed by a CIA operative when an informant reports the palace meeting. Colossal misunderstandings set the stage for humor, while interactions among Lynn and David, the foreign agents, GeneralAláz, multi-millionaire Jonathan Kingsley, Academy Award-winning Hollywood actress Natalie Forthright, Lynn’s husband Patrick, and other memorable characters elicit a tear or two at the reality underlying the page-turner plot.
268 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 29, 2012
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About the author
Joseph Keough
5 books1 followerJoseph Keough was born in Philadelphia and has lived most of his life at the southern New Jersey seashore. A magna cum laude graduate of LaSalle University and former member of Mensa, he is currently retired from a first career in corporate human resources and a second as Police Records Clerk in Margate City, NJ, his former hometown. Including Shattered Peace he has authored five novels. His short stories and articles have appeared in Men’s Digest, Best for Men, Rascal and South Jersey Living. He also writes music and poetry, having penned the national prize-winning poem Crocus. He and his wife Margaret (artist and cover creator) currently reside in Ventnor City, NJ. Their six children and eight grandchildren live nearby.
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