Getting Filthy Rich

by David Pereda

Rich Connermann is a small-time Houston con man who makes his living bilking credulous investors. Rich yearns to become filthy rich. Money energizes him, gives him a rush, even excites him sexually—particularly when he earns it on a con. This time Rich has outdone himself. He has come up with an idea he believes will make him richer than he ever dreamed. And he has found the ideal marks to his own partner and his friends, a bunch of dumb and wealthy Arabs. But could Rich be trying to cheat the wrong people? Rich doesn’t think so. He has such confidence in his scheme that he’s willing to travel to the Middle East, accompanied by his mistress, carrying a $2,000,000 check as seed money to hoodwink the Arabs out of $20,000,000. Obviously, Rich isn’t worried about being conned himself—but should he be?

152 pages, Paperback

First published June 26, 2006

About the author

I am a writer and college writing instructor in Asheville NC. My latest mainstream novel, However Long the Night, published by Eternal Press in February 2012, has won two awards already and is currently a finalist in the romantic suspense category of the 2012 Readers Favorite Awards -- winners to be announced in September. My previous novels include the thrillers, Killing Castro, published by Eternal Press in January 2010, and Top Secret, published by Eternal Press in 2009. I am now hard at work on a third thriller, Twin Powers, with estimated publication in 2013, and another mainstream novel, Havana Blues in Onyx, with anticipated publication in 2014.
A member of MENSA, I am the ex-regional director of Florida Writers Association’s Western North Carolina division and the founder of AWE (Asheville Writing Enthusiasts). I love sports and have won many prizes competing in track and show-jumping equestrian events. I live with my family in Asheville, North Carolina.