Suicide Squeeze A Novel

"The high spot of Teddy Folger's life was the day in 1954 that he got a very special autographed baseball card from Joe DiMaggio himself. It's been downhill ever since. Which is why he just unloaded his freeloading wife and torched his own comic-book store in a strip plaza in Mobile, Alabama. Now Teddy's sitting pretty at the Tiki Bar in Pensacola, Florida, chugging cocktails, unaware that he just pulled off the stupidest insurance scam in American history." "Enter Conner Samson. The down-on-his-luck repo man has just been hired to repossess Teddy's boat. What he doesn't know is there's a priceless stowaway on board - a signed baseball card that some men are willing to kill for. Like Ahira Kurisaka, Yakuza boss and rabid collector of American pop culture. He already paid top dollar for a fingernail clipping from Elvis. Now he wants Folger's DiMaggio card, and has just unleashed a team of bounty hunters to get it for him. A million dollars goes to the one who comes back with the prize." "The bait is set, the plan in place. Only one thing stands between Kurisaka and DiMaggio: repo man Conner Samson. Suddenly Conner's smack in the eye of a ninja hurricane, racing across the country with a bunch of hired guns, warrior wannabes, Gotham geeks, one sexy special-ops-agent-turned-insurance-claims-investigator, and a jealous husband hot on his trail and all ready to do harm. With the bodies piling up across state lines, the squeeze is on for the ultimate piece of Americana. And Conner will be lucky if he eneds up back where he started: broke and (still) breathing."--BOOK JACKET.

Victor Gischler lives in the wilds of Skiatook, Oklahoma–a long, long way from a Starbuck's. His wife, Jackie, thinks he is a silly individual. He drinks black, black coffee all day long and sleeps about seven minutes a night. Victor's first novel, Gun Monkeys, was nominated for the Edgar Award.


From the Hardcover edition.