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Corridor Man #1
Corridor Man
The first in an exciting new series, Bobby Custer is a corridor man, a disbarred attorney working the hallways and back alleys of the legal game. After serving four years of a seven year sentence federal agents make him an offer he can't refuse. The real question is do the agents have any idea the monster they're about to unleash on society? Revenge, duplicity and immorality all have their consequences, not that Bobby cares. He's in it for one thing, and one thing alone, himself. A combination of Breaking Bad and House of Cards, Corridor Man is an action packed thriller that's bound to keep you awake at night.
312 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 15, 2015
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About the author
Mike Faricy
131 books240 followersI 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.
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June 9, 2016
Bobby Custer is imprisoned after being disbarred for dodgy deals and serves just over four years of a seven year sentence. Once out, federal police make him an offer that will see him employed and able to pay his rent but they may be in for a shock as Bobby is not a nice man. He is a narcissist, a sociopath and really quite psychotic. Bobby spends his days delivering mail and taking witnesses to depositions and back. This book moves along at a cracking pace and at 79% I was thinking how it would all end but beware when I turned the next page the book ended, now need to purchase book two to see what Bobby gets up to next.
June 25, 2016
It won't get more than that from me because it's another fricken "to be continued" piece of trash! I almost started to enjoy the book - a loser tying to get his act together again, but inherently a sleaze ball ... And then an abrupt, "I'm so sorry to stop here, but please get the next book ..."
Do you have any IDEA what the Rand/Dollar exchange rate is???!? Grrr ... I HATE this!
Do you have any IDEA what the Rand/Dollar exchange rate is???!? Grrr ... I HATE this!
May 17, 2016
Dissatisfied.
Extremely disappointed, needs a good editing. Not one likeable character. Won't be reading any of the next books in this series.
Extremely disappointed, needs a good editing. Not one likeable character. Won't be reading any of the next books in this series.
May 22, 2016
Corridor Man
Didn't realize this book was going to leave me hanging....I hate that!!!!! Overall the bookcases terrible, but don't plan on reading anymore.
Didn't realize this book was going to leave me hanging....I hate that!!!!! Overall the bookcases terrible, but don't plan on reading anymore.
July 11, 2017
CORRIDOR MAN
By Nick James
We meet defrocked lawyer Bobby Custer in a prison interrogation room, getting squeezed hard by two federal agents making him an offer he really can’t refuse -- snitch for them and leave the graybar hotel after serving four of seven years on a fraud bounce or stay for the full ride.
Bobby takes the deal, which comes with vague instructions about keeping his eyes and ears open in an entry-level job with a downtown St. Paul, Minnesota law firm, and gets dropped off at a halfway house. Which leads to a ratty efficiency on the bad side of town and a wheezing Geo he needs for his new job as an errand boy, driving witnesses to and from the firm for depositions.
At this point, Bobby’s a bit of a sad sack who seems destined for either a quick return to prison or a marginal life dining on frozen TV dinners and stealing a neighbor’s laundry to get bed linen. But author Nick James, nom de plume for prolific crime author Mike Faricy, also shows the reader another side of Bobby, a guy who has plucky survival skills, street smarts sharpened by prison and a larcenous eye for opportunity.
In this taut, fast-paced and well-told tale, the first of a series, James presents us with a tasty slice of classic urban noir -- a down-on-his-luck guy, buffeted by circumstances beyond his control, forced to rely on his wits to deal with the sudden and sometimes violent twists and turns that come his way. Rich with detailed descriptions, snappy dialogue and fully-developed characters, this is noir in the tradition of James M. Cain’s “Double Indemnity” or “The Postman Always Rings Twice.”
We see the story through Bobby’s eyes and are just as surprised as he is by the turn of events. First, he’s hauling a soused barfly named Kate Clarken to the firm only to be shot at by two hitters named Dubuque and Mobile. He meets her muscle-bound and thuggish son, Precious, known as Prez, after the mother winds up murdered outside of one of the few dives that would let her drink on the cuff and Bobby goes to the funeral. Prez leaves the urn with his mother’s ashes at Bobby’s apartment, then stakes Bobby out as bait to lure Dubuque and Mobile out of hiding for a bit of payback. That doesn’t turn out quite the way Prez planned.
At each turn, Bobby’s eye for the lucrative angle and smarter but illegal move come into play. He’s a likable, but bent ex-lawyer on the ropes and he’s doing what he has to do to survive. Each move takes him deeper toward the center of a big-league criminal conspiracy and ever closer to the kingpin who controls it all, Morris Montcreff. When asked to drop off papers on a real estate deal involving Montcreff, one of the firm’s biggest clients, Bobby can’t help himself. He takes a peek and sees a passage that sticks Montcreff with the lion’s share of financial liability.
That catches Montcreff’s murderous eye. His thugs drag Bobby to a meeting in a dank wine cellar and appear bent on torturing and killing him until he turns a wine bottle into a lethal weapon and kills one of the thugs who is starting to bore into Bobby’s arm with a power drill. This impresses Montcreff. Suddenly, Bobby appears to be on easy street. He’s ushered into a corner office of the firm whose managing partner loathes him and assigned to review every Montcreff deal the firm has ever handled. He’s promised moves would be made to restore his law license and whisked into spacious digs in a restored apartment building with his rent paid by the firm.
Bobby plays the new hand he’s dealt with vigor and obvious but understated relish. He uses his newfound leverage to carve out a comfortable life and powerful role at the firm, politely rubbing the nose of managing partner Noah Denton in it. And you find yourself rooting for Bobby even though he’s a crook, a killer and a bit of a weasel. But there’s a price to pay and it’s waiting around the next corner -- which happens to be a cliffhanger ending that sets up the sequel to this edition of Corridor Man.
Corridor Man is available on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Corridor-Man-N...
Jim Nesbitt is the author of two hard-boiled Texas crime thrillers, The Right Wrong Number and The Last Second Chance. Both are available in paperback or Kindle at www.amazon.com/author/jimnesbitt
By Nick James
We meet defrocked lawyer Bobby Custer in a prison interrogation room, getting squeezed hard by two federal agents making him an offer he really can’t refuse -- snitch for them and leave the graybar hotel after serving four of seven years on a fraud bounce or stay for the full ride.
Bobby takes the deal, which comes with vague instructions about keeping his eyes and ears open in an entry-level job with a downtown St. Paul, Minnesota law firm, and gets dropped off at a halfway house. Which leads to a ratty efficiency on the bad side of town and a wheezing Geo he needs for his new job as an errand boy, driving witnesses to and from the firm for depositions.
At this point, Bobby’s a bit of a sad sack who seems destined for either a quick return to prison or a marginal life dining on frozen TV dinners and stealing a neighbor’s laundry to get bed linen. But author Nick James, nom de plume for prolific crime author Mike Faricy, also shows the reader another side of Bobby, a guy who has plucky survival skills, street smarts sharpened by prison and a larcenous eye for opportunity.
In this taut, fast-paced and well-told tale, the first of a series, James presents us with a tasty slice of classic urban noir -- a down-on-his-luck guy, buffeted by circumstances beyond his control, forced to rely on his wits to deal with the sudden and sometimes violent twists and turns that come his way. Rich with detailed descriptions, snappy dialogue and fully-developed characters, this is noir in the tradition of James M. Cain’s “Double Indemnity” or “The Postman Always Rings Twice.”
We see the story through Bobby’s eyes and are just as surprised as he is by the turn of events. First, he’s hauling a soused barfly named Kate Clarken to the firm only to be shot at by two hitters named Dubuque and Mobile. He meets her muscle-bound and thuggish son, Precious, known as Prez, after the mother winds up murdered outside of one of the few dives that would let her drink on the cuff and Bobby goes to the funeral. Prez leaves the urn with his mother’s ashes at Bobby’s apartment, then stakes Bobby out as bait to lure Dubuque and Mobile out of hiding for a bit of payback. That doesn’t turn out quite the way Prez planned.
At each turn, Bobby’s eye for the lucrative angle and smarter but illegal move come into play. He’s a likable, but bent ex-lawyer on the ropes and he’s doing what he has to do to survive. Each move takes him deeper toward the center of a big-league criminal conspiracy and ever closer to the kingpin who controls it all, Morris Montcreff. When asked to drop off papers on a real estate deal involving Montcreff, one of the firm’s biggest clients, Bobby can’t help himself. He takes a peek and sees a passage that sticks Montcreff with the lion’s share of financial liability.
That catches Montcreff’s murderous eye. His thugs drag Bobby to a meeting in a dank wine cellar and appear bent on torturing and killing him until he turns a wine bottle into a lethal weapon and kills one of the thugs who is starting to bore into Bobby’s arm with a power drill. This impresses Montcreff. Suddenly, Bobby appears to be on easy street. He’s ushered into a corner office of the firm whose managing partner loathes him and assigned to review every Montcreff deal the firm has ever handled. He’s promised moves would be made to restore his law license and whisked into spacious digs in a restored apartment building with his rent paid by the firm.
Bobby plays the new hand he’s dealt with vigor and obvious but understated relish. He uses his newfound leverage to carve out a comfortable life and powerful role at the firm, politely rubbing the nose of managing partner Noah Denton in it. And you find yourself rooting for Bobby even though he’s a crook, a killer and a bit of a weasel. But there’s a price to pay and it’s waiting around the next corner -- which happens to be a cliffhanger ending that sets up the sequel to this edition of Corridor Man.
Corridor Man is available on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Corridor-Man-N...
Jim Nesbitt is the author of two hard-boiled Texas crime thrillers, The Right Wrong Number and The Last Second Chance. Both are available in paperback or Kindle at www.amazon.com/author/jimnesbitt
March 17, 2021
This is a thriller you definitely do not want to miss!! I loved it so much I immediately went in and purchased the second in the series. Of course the ending had me wanting to know what happens next--cliff hanger alert!!
Bobby Custer just got out of jail early for good behavior. He was in for a white collar crime--he lost his legal licence--his wife and had virtually nothing left to his name! After spending a month or two in a half way house he managed to get a run down apartment. One thing--he was to be given a job at the law firm he used to work at--but not doing law--he accepted which is why he got out early!
He was essentially a delivery boy--shuffling people back and forth for depositions. One woman wasn't where she was supposed to be and he had to find her. He found her in a bar totally drunk out of her mind. Then someone tried to kill her--then her son came to thank Bobby--and that is when all the trouble really starts!!
Talk about twists and turns--they will make your head spin! I really can not say much more without giving up the story and I want you to read this book!!
Bobby Custer just got out of jail early for good behavior. He was in for a white collar crime--he lost his legal licence--his wife and had virtually nothing left to his name! After spending a month or two in a half way house he managed to get a run down apartment. One thing--he was to be given a job at the law firm he used to work at--but not doing law--he accepted which is why he got out early!
He was essentially a delivery boy--shuffling people back and forth for depositions. One woman wasn't where she was supposed to be and he had to find her. He found her in a bar totally drunk out of her mind. Then someone tried to kill her--then her son came to thank Bobby--and that is when all the trouble really starts!!
Talk about twists and turns--they will make your head spin! I really can not say much more without giving up the story and I want you to read this book!!
November 22, 2016
This is not a book it is a chapter in a book that Mike Faricy wants you to pay $4.99 for each of the next 4 chapters. Corridor Man #1 ended without even a subplot conclusion, just a teaser for the next $4.99 Kindle "book". Who knows how long the $4.99 per chapter sequence ripoff will last.
I was enjoying the writing, plot etc. until the abrupt blatant teaser ending. I strongly condemn this sham marketing approach. If the scheme for this ends at just Corridor Man #5 you will have paid $25 for a Kindle book. REALLY?
I was enjoying the writing, plot etc. until the abrupt blatant teaser ending. I strongly condemn this sham marketing approach. If the scheme for this ends at just Corridor Man #5 you will have paid $25 for a Kindle book. REALLY?
March 12, 2019
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One more time, I have encountered a new to me author. Well done Mike Faricy. I thoroughly enjoyed this first of the series novel. Lots of action and yet a compelling story and a primary character who can't stay out of hot water. What a way to go. And now I have to have the second in the series just to find out how hot the water really was. But that's OK. I know where to find the rest of the series as needed. Soon. Very soon.
One more time, I have encountered a new to me author. Well done Mike Faricy. I thoroughly enjoyed this first of the series novel. Lots of action and yet a compelling story and a primary character who can't stay out of hot water. What a way to go. And now I have to have the second in the series just to find out how hot the water really was. But that's OK. I know where to find the rest of the series as needed. Soon. Very soon.
January 10, 2021
Where to begin.......I was absolutely engrossed with this reading...I had to take a break at one point because it is somewhat intense reading...LOL>>LOL..the holidays fell in there etc..but, I sure do recommend any of this series....I have a few to go but taking a break and reading about Dev:-) These characters are so off the wall, I find them fascinating!
Just read them, if they aren't for you---after you give them a FAIR test----then I am sorry for you.
LOVE THIS WORK!
Just read them, if they aren't for you---after you give them a FAIR test----then I am sorry for you.
LOVE THIS WORK!
September 28, 2024
a brilliant first in series
This story is a page turner, well paced and balanced with characters you can clearly visualise. I’m definitely going to read all of the stories in this series. Bobby is a rogue you can’t help but grow to like. I’m very much looking forward to sinking my teeth into book 2! Praise for Faricy 10/10
This story is a page turner, well paced and balanced with characters you can clearly visualise. I’m definitely going to read all of the stories in this series. Bobby is a rogue you can’t help but grow to like. I’m very much looking forward to sinking my teeth into book 2! Praise for Faricy 10/10
February 8, 2019
Crime thriller
Bobby was offered to have 3 years shaved off his sentence to do whatever the feds told him to do no questions asked. So far they've only told him where to go to work but then left him on his own to get into all sorts of mischief and mayhem.
Bobby was offered to have 3 years shaved off his sentence to do whatever the feds told him to do no questions asked. So far they've only told him where to go to work but then left him on his own to get into all sorts of mischief and mayhem.
May 1, 2022
Slippery Lawyer Indeed
Amazing tale of a lawyer who is disbarred, divorced & imprisoned who goes from rock bottom to having everything again. It's just that he's become an associate of a mobster to do so. How will he extricate himself?
Amazing tale of a lawyer who is disbarred, divorced & imprisoned who goes from rock bottom to having everything again. It's just that he's become an associate of a mobster to do so. How will he extricate himself?
November 5, 2022
Terrific Story Telling with cliff hanger
Who is he? What did he do? What is he doing? What will he do? These puzzles make reading Corridor Man fun and non stop. Be warned, you will have to get the next book to find answers.
Who is he? What did he do? What is he doing? What will he do? These puzzles make reading Corridor Man fun and non stop. Be warned, you will have to get the next book to find answers.
March 1, 2024
Character you have to find out what is next
I can't decide if I like or hate Bobby. His character is hard to figure out. He can't seem to help getting himself into deeper and deeper trouble! But I can't help wanting to see what he is getting into next.
I can't decide if I like or hate Bobby. His character is hard to figure out. He can't seem to help getting himself into deeper and deeper trouble! But I can't help wanting to see what he is getting into next.
March 23, 2024
Moves right along. Bobby let's no grass grow under him.
I liked that Bobby is very clever keeps things interesting. I didn't like that it got very violent at times, & people would throw others under a bus at the drop of a hat to benefit themselves. 🤔
I liked that Bobby is very clever keeps things interesting. I didn't like that it got very violent at times, & people would throw others under a bus at the drop of a hat to benefit themselves. 🤔
January 8, 2025
I've got three of these books about Bobby free on Bookbub and am reading them as I write this. Bobby is a scumbag and is always on the make at the expense of someone else and he's not fussy who goes down to further his ends, whatever they are. It makes god reading.
October 16, 2025
very cool read
Bobby Custer is quite a character. Disbarred attorney, ex-CPA, ex-con, and a first class schemer and a quiet trouble maker and semi-legal problem solver. Enjoy the ride.
Bobby Custer is quite a character. Disbarred attorney, ex-CPA, ex-con, and a first class schemer and a quiet trouble maker and semi-legal problem solver. Enjoy the ride.
July 6, 2017
Cannot believe it ended so abruptly, need the next set now!!!
April 14, 2019
Excellent
This book is fast paced and well-written. The characters are well developed and the whole story keeps you wanting more and more.
This book is fast paced and well-written. The characters are well developed and the whole story keeps you wanting more and more.
February 28, 2020
Great book
Great book it will keep you thinking about it all the time and it will keep you posted by the way it was written
Great book it will keep you thinking about it all the time and it will keep you posted by the way it was written
February 9, 2021
Cliff hanger
It is a cliffhanger and should have been reported as such not worth the time to read it no way
It is a cliffhanger and should have been reported as such not worth the time to read it no way
March 22, 2021
Great beginning for a series. Intense action, sure to please any reader.
May 10, 2024
I have read most all of Mike Faricy's books and can't wait to read the next ones in this series! Possibly one of his best to date.
August 21, 2024
Another fun read from Mike Faricy.
September 21, 2024
Bobby Custer is quite the character. Don't cross him. This book held me captive until The End.
October 2, 2024
good read
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November 10, 2024It's alright.
February 14, 2025
The writing is excellent but the "hero" is not my kind of guy.
July 25, 2025
I enjoyed this book! I look forward to reading the next Corridor Man.
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