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Leapers

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When Rick Waverly leaves a Midwest steel town to become a writer for American Prosperity magazine in the big city, he fools himself into believing he's escaped his blue-collar roots. For twenty years, he works at the magazine devoted to idolizing the extreme rich--CEOs, CFOs, hedge fund managers. Leapers is about Rick's discoveries concerning money and position as he researches his final story for the magazine to uncover the secrets of C. Douglas Fugassi, a reclusive billionaire.

Rick is exhausted, worn down by his career and life in the city. He’d long shunned the city’s most unpleasant aspects. But they materialize in the form of Soog, a grizzled homeless man who sets up camp in a shabby park below his window.

Rick digs into the Fugassi assignment, while at the same time he gets to know Soog, who reminds him of his roots. Rick bounces between the world of the homeless man and the wealthy people connected to the missing billionaire. Rick makes love to a woman with mysterious ties to the 11th richest person in America, and he has other breaks that lead him to close in on his quarry.

Leapers is a novella for the era of Occupy Wall Street. It continues the spirit of writers such as John Steinbeck and John O'Hara who were producing social novels in the 1930s.

Language: English

Pages: 125

Format: Kindle Edition

Leapers

3.4/5 ( ratings)

When Rick Waverly leaves a Midwest steel town to become a writer for American Prosperity magazine in the big city, he fools himself into believing he's escaped his blue-collar roots. For twenty years, he works at the magazine devoted to idolizing the extreme rich--CEOs, CFOs, hedge fund managers. Leapers is about Rick's discoveries concerning money and position as he researches his final story for the magazine to uncover the secrets of C. Douglas Fugassi, a reclusive billionaire.

Rick is exhausted, worn down by his career and life in the city. He’d long shunned the city’s most unpleasant aspects. But they materialize in the form of Soog, a grizzled homeless man who sets up camp in a shabby park below his window.

Rick digs into the Fugassi assignment, while at the same time he gets to know Soog, who reminds him of his roots. Rick bounces between the world of the homeless man and the wealthy people connected to the missing billionaire. Rick makes love to a woman with mysterious ties to the 11th richest person in America, and he has other breaks that lead him to close in on his quarry.

Leapers is a novella for the era of Occupy Wall Street. It continues the spirit of writers such as John Steinbeck and John O'Hara who were producing social novels in the 1930s.

Language: English

Pages: 125

Format: Kindle Edition

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