Baby Grand

by Mike Faricy

Childhood pals and terminal losers Mickey Donnelly and Del Dolan have come up with the ultimate pension scheme. A series of madcap snatch and grabs that go immediately off course. Pursued throughout this quirky tale by longtime nemesis and gangster Huey Evans they barely survive the inevitable mishaps and wrong turns.

Between uncooperative husbands, tell all mistresses and a mob contract success doesn't come easily. Still, Mickey manages to find time to become romantically involved. In the end, only their stupidity and comic ineptness can save them.

As usual, Mike Faricy has spiced this madcap romp with a cast of riveting, not to mention, bizarrely quirky characters in a plot that winds and twists its way to a breathtaking conclusion. Careful, once you pick this up you won't want to put it down.

288 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 23, 2010

About the author

I was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, I still live there as well as in Dublin, Ireland. I've been a soldier, freelance journalist, tended bar, sold designer cakes, owned a painting and decorating company along with a number of other schemes and scams. If that doesn't offend you I also play bagpipes with the Brian Boru Irish Pipe Band. All my books stand alone, read them in whatever order you wish. They are filled with the sort of oddballs we are all curious about, but wisely, prefer to keep at a distance. None of my characters will be saving the world from terrorism, international banking conspiracies or coups to take over the government. Rather, they inhabit a world just below the surface of polite society, characters with one foot on either side of the law. The circumstances they find themselves in are usually due to bad decisions, but bad decisions lead to interesting stories. They serve not so much as an example but as a warning to us all. Thanks for taking the time, happy reading.