Dick Braun is a deputy sheriff in an affluent Ohio township, fed up with his job and wife and trying to hang on to his hot girlfriend, a wannabe screenwriter who talks in movie titles and can’t decide between love and greed. 

Desperate, Dick comes up with a plan to steal eight million dollars from an armored car and with the money and lady, fly out of the country.   

He calls on an ex-army buddy, a former gang banger in the LA  barrio who comes out with his cousin to help. They get the cash but there’s a double cross, the money’s on the loose and Dick goes scrambling after it.

Mixed up in a tangle of lies and betrayal are two former Navy seals, a Merrill Lynch broker, a bent Mexican cop, a rogue banker, a Brazilian woman to die for, government types and people out to kill. 

Hey, it’s eight million dollars.

Tough and tight, with some beautiful people in pretty places thrown in, the story winds its way down to an unexpected
finale.

Norm Maher was President and Creative Director for a 4A, Los Angeles based advertising agency where he won numerous awards for his copy and creative campaigns. He has also been a newspaper reporter, magazine editor and USAF security intelligence officer and has written a non-fiction book on sexual harassment, a novel, Girl of My Dreams and a collection of short stories, Love Among the Cannibals. some of which have won critical praise. His stories and articles have appeared in Gallery, The Washington Post, Newsday, a writer’s project program, and local literary journals. You can reach him at zam@zoomtown.com.

Bordering on noir with touches of humor, Easy Money by Norm Maher has it all: colorful, unique characters, snappy dialogue, unusual crime, sex, plenty of action, colorful settings, and a twisted surprise ending. Highly recommended.

-- Marilyn Meredith, Author of the Deputy Tempe Crabtree mystery series.