Eddie's World

Eddie Senta has a problem. His attractive second wife, a highly successful marketing research executive who hears her biological clock loudly ticking, wants a baby. She also wants Eddie to clean up his act. Their marriage is going bad.

Nothing’s going great for Eddie, in fact. His stints as a firecracker word processor in the legitimate business world mostly bore him, and the kick he once got running for the mob has fizzled into dull efficiency. Maybe Eddie is suffering the effects of a midlife crisis, like his wife’s therapist says.

Dogged by the feeling that his world is daily shrinking, Eddie seizes the opportunity, when it presents itself, to make an easy score and at the same time to help out a friend. Not that Eddie needs the five grand he figures to make on the deal, he longs for the thrill — and the rejuvenation of his stale fortyish self — that a quick, uncomplicated robbery might bring.

What it brings instead is disaster. The robbery’s a bust, and Eddie finds himself not only implicated in a case of triple murder but also entangled in an increasingly dangerous contest with the FBI, a ruthless killer under federal witness protection, two New York City homicide detectives, and a Russian mobster.

Shrewdly plotted, hotly paced, and often humorous, this high-voltage crime novel hurtles Eddie into a lot more excitement than he bargained form, as his crisis turns into a matter of midlife or death.

• Author
• Charlie Stella

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 241

• Publisher
• Carroll & Graf Publishers

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780786708932

• Genres
• crime

• Release date
• 2001