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A Jake Wanderman Mystery #1
Scrambled Eggs
SYNOPSIS OF SCRAMBLED EGGS
Life gets scrambled fast after Jake Wanderman, Shakespeare maven extraordinaire, decides to quit teaching.
First, his wife of many years leaves him without telling him why. Says if he can’t figure it out himself he deserves to be alone. He loves his wife so he is quite upset.
Next, his best friend asks him to help a recent widow (glamorous and beautiful) cope with her new problems. He does so and immediately finds himself the object of the widow’s attentions. It turns out that seduction is the least of his problems. It seems the widow’s late husband was a member of the Russian Mafia and had in his possession a bevy of stolen Faberge eggs. Lots of people are after this treasure and Jake wishes he could get out of the whole thing. Unfortunately for him, it is too late.
Forced to deal with the widow, the Russian Mafia, the KGB, the FBI and the NYPD, along with suspicious deaths and abductions as well as a trip to Moscow, Jake manages to not only survive while quoting appropriate lines from Shakespeare, but win his wife back at the same time.
Life gets scrambled fast after Jake Wanderman, Shakespeare maven extraordinaire, decides to quit teaching.
First, his wife of many years leaves him without telling him why. Says if he can’t figure it out himself he deserves to be alone. He loves his wife so he is quite upset.
Next, his best friend asks him to help a recent widow (glamorous and beautiful) cope with her new problems. He does so and immediately finds himself the object of the widow’s attentions. It turns out that seduction is the least of his problems. It seems the widow’s late husband was a member of the Russian Mafia and had in his possession a bevy of stolen Faberge eggs. Lots of people are after this treasure and Jake wishes he could get out of the whole thing. Unfortunately for him, it is too late.
Forced to deal with the widow, the Russian Mafia, the KGB, the FBI and the NYPD, along with suspicious deaths and abductions as well as a trip to Moscow, Jake manages to not only survive while quoting appropriate lines from Shakespeare, but win his wife back at the same time.
- GenresMystery
292 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 2, 2006
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About the author
Boris Riskin
3 books4 followersBIO OF BORIS RISKIN
Many fiction writers have long been urged to get out of their ivory towers and research the real world for their material. Boris Riskin did better than that; he went out and actually worked for a living. A Brooklyn native, Riskin traveled the world. He lived in France twice, once on a honeymoon, again to attend the Sorbonne, both times to write … and write. After studying at the University of Michigan with playwright Kenneth Rowe, Riskin supported himself and family at a variety of jobs -- from dishwasher to factory worker, busboy to a hawker of low price garments for high fashion women. All the while experiencing first hand the stuff of the human condition that feeds his writing.
Mr. Riskin’s work has appeared over the years in a variety of literary magazines, including The New Yorker. Long an avid reader of mystery-thrillers, he finally decided to write one. The crackling result was Scrambled Eggs (2005), a taut thriller that introduced a salty new reluctant sleuth called Jake Wanderman, and an exciting new crime novelist called Boris Riskin.
Riskin now lives and writes in Sag Harbor, at the eastern end of New York’s Long Island, where the bay and ocean are close enough to touch he says, and the air is alive with stories. Jake Wanderman lives there too, back in action now as the Shakespeare-quoting anti-hero of Mr. Riskin’s new autopsy of the art world, Deadly Bones (2007).
> Please visit his website:
> _www.robertborisriskin.com
Also on Facebook & blog www.alterkocker.com
Many fiction writers have long been urged to get out of their ivory towers and research the real world for their material. Boris Riskin did better than that; he went out and actually worked for a living. A Brooklyn native, Riskin traveled the world. He lived in France twice, once on a honeymoon, again to attend the Sorbonne, both times to write … and write. After studying at the University of Michigan with playwright Kenneth Rowe, Riskin supported himself and family at a variety of jobs -- from dishwasher to factory worker, busboy to a hawker of low price garments for high fashion women. All the while experiencing first hand the stuff of the human condition that feeds his writing.
Mr. Riskin’s work has appeared over the years in a variety of literary magazines, including The New Yorker. Long an avid reader of mystery-thrillers, he finally decided to write one. The crackling result was Scrambled Eggs (2005), a taut thriller that introduced a salty new reluctant sleuth called Jake Wanderman, and an exciting new crime novelist called Boris Riskin.
Riskin now lives and writes in Sag Harbor, at the eastern end of New York’s Long Island, where the bay and ocean are close enough to touch he says, and the air is alive with stories. Jake Wanderman lives there too, back in action now as the Shakespeare-quoting anti-hero of Mr. Riskin’s new autopsy of the art world, Deadly Bones (2007).
> Please visit his website:
> _www.robertborisriskin.com
Also on Facebook & blog www.alterkocker.com
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October 2, 2016
Full of suspense
Was a great book, full of suspense and mystery.
It had lots of twists And turns.
Must be read.
Was a great book, full of suspense and mystery.
It had lots of twists And turns.
Must be read.
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