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AnonMan
An unemployed man receives an anonymous letter full of cash in the mail. His problems are just beginning...
AnonMan is set in the near future when the water runs out in Las Vegas. An American city is dying though the people don't know it yet, or care. Bobby is in a rut. He's an unemployed degenerate gambler trudging through an unsatisfying life. Some things never change -- the water can disappear, but the thirst for gambling never evaporates. His hen-pecking wife constantly hassles him about finding a job, which only exasperates his excessive gambling.
At his wit's end, Bobby finds an anonymous letter in the mail. It's full of cash. A cryptic letter alludes to the cash as payment for a murder. Bobby didn't commit the crime, but he takes the money anyway and blows it at the sportsbook.
Bobby returns home to a marriage in a state of irreconcilable disrepair due to unpaid bills. Yet, there's a glimmer of hope. Another anonymous letter waits in the mailbox. Only this one has no cash. Just a note...and a proposition. Kill a man and receive more money.
AnonMan is set in the near future when the water runs out in Las Vegas. An American city is dying though the people don't know it yet, or care. Bobby is in a rut. He's an unemployed degenerate gambler trudging through an unsatisfying life. Some things never change -- the water can disappear, but the thirst for gambling never evaporates. His hen-pecking wife constantly hassles him about finding a job, which only exasperates his excessive gambling.
At his wit's end, Bobby finds an anonymous letter in the mail. It's full of cash. A cryptic letter alludes to the cash as payment for a murder. Bobby didn't commit the crime, but he takes the money anyway and blows it at the sportsbook.
Bobby returns home to a marriage in a state of irreconcilable disrepair due to unpaid bills. Yet, there's a glimmer of hope. Another anonymous letter waits in the mailbox. Only this one has no cash. Just a note...and a proposition. Kill a man and receive more money.
158 pages, Paperback
Published March 23, 2018
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About the author
Jonathan Heatt
14 books5 followersI'm an American writer with an insatiable appetite for butchering the English language. I write fiction, nonfiction, poetry, short stories, screenplays, and other inauspicious scribblings. If I had any sense I would've learned how to write code for computer programs.
When I'm not writing, I like to eat, drink, breathe, and trim toenails. Judging by the length of my tree climbers it's obvious I write quite often.
My new novel is Highway of Tears. Two college graduates take a road trip on the deadliest highway in North America. The novel is based on the terrifying real story of Highway 16 in British Columbia, nicknamed the Highway of Tears.
My new poetry book is Bedouin in a Fallen Desert, a collection of poems written by a Las Vegas author from 2020 through 2025 detailing his observations of the Covid years, political upheavals, the erosion of civil liberties, American divisiveness, and massive depopulation initiatives.
Basically a time capsule of living in a clown world, the author extols the importance of freedom in the 21st century while mixing in humor, mysticism, and admiration for a beneficial green plant.
When I'm not writing, I like to eat, drink, breathe, and trim toenails. Judging by the length of my tree climbers it's obvious I write quite often.
My new novel is Highway of Tears. Two college graduates take a road trip on the deadliest highway in North America. The novel is based on the terrifying real story of Highway 16 in British Columbia, nicknamed the Highway of Tears.
My new poetry book is Bedouin in a Fallen Desert, a collection of poems written by a Las Vegas author from 2020 through 2025 detailing his observations of the Covid years, political upheavals, the erosion of civil liberties, American divisiveness, and massive depopulation initiatives.
Basically a time capsule of living in a clown world, the author extols the importance of freedom in the 21st century while mixing in humor, mysticism, and admiration for a beneficial green plant.
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May 28, 2019
I received this book for free. I am voluntarily leaving this review and all opinions expressed herein are mine.
Here, Bobby is unemployed and a gambler. He misleads his wife into thinking he is looking for work. One day he receives some money in an envelope for committing a murder that he did not commit - which he blows gambling. Then he receives another note with a promise of more money for another murder. Bobby decides to look into who is sending him anonymous letters.
On it's face, this seems to be a very interesting premise for a book. The problem I had is that I could not connect and did not like a single character in this book. Bobby is sarcastic [which is fine] but in a continual depricating way about everyone and everything. His wife is portrayed as shrill - she is after Bobby to get a job [which seems normal] and he's not [so she gets upset, again normal] but this is portrayed as being a bad character trait on her part. Because I just did not care for Bobby, at all, I found it hard to care what happened to him. Perhaps other readers will not have this same issue.
I listened to this book - the narrator did a fine job.
Here, Bobby is unemployed and a gambler. He misleads his wife into thinking he is looking for work. One day he receives some money in an envelope for committing a murder that he did not commit - which he blows gambling. Then he receives another note with a promise of more money for another murder. Bobby decides to look into who is sending him anonymous letters.
On it's face, this seems to be a very interesting premise for a book. The problem I had is that I could not connect and did not like a single character in this book. Bobby is sarcastic [which is fine] but in a continual depricating way about everyone and everything. His wife is portrayed as shrill - she is after Bobby to get a job [which seems normal] and he's not [so she gets upset, again normal] but this is portrayed as being a bad character trait on her part. Because I just did not care for Bobby, at all, I found it hard to care what happened to him. Perhaps other readers will not have this same issue.
I listened to this book - the narrator did a fine job.
February 3, 2025
In the Gore Vidal style the writer spends pages and pages showing off his vocabulary, which was intriguing at first , but the negativity woven chapter after chapter was deadening. I admit I added this as a read book, not finished read, my new motto for 2025 was to cut my losses and move on to another book instead of wallowing through the remainder of a book that I struggle to finish. Good Story Line though.
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