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Simon & Schuster
October 2009
On Sale: October 6, 2009
272 pages
ISBN: 1416570896
EAN: 9781416570899
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Mystery
Comedy legend Johnny Leland has called in his chips. He's
organizing a charity telethon and needs TV cop Richard
Belzer to cohost. Not one to let down an old friend -- much
less the guy who gave him his start in stand-up comedy --
The Belz gets ready to head out to Las Vegas for the
headlining event when he receives a mysterious phone
call. Twenty-six years ago, beautiful starlet Bridget
Burgeon was found dead in her Hollywood apartment. Sleeping
pills, the coroner ruled, but many questioned whether her
relationship with handsome, up-and-coming California
congressman Mark Kaye played a role. Kaye's death in a
tragic auto accident put an end to any investigation but not
to the speculation. Conspiracy theorists have been working
overtime ever since, and Paul Venchus, an old newspaper
colleague whom Richard hasn't seen in thirty years, claims
to have made a breakthrough in the case. A well-known
conspiracy theorist himself, The Belz can't resist hearing
him out and agrees to meet. When Venchus turns up dead and
a wacky, self-proclaimed female psychic shows up at his
hotel in Vegas insisting that Belzer continue their
investigation, he reluctantly relents. Relying on The Belz's
TV cop know-how and celebrity status, they begin to piece
together a series of mysterious deaths that, while rooted a
quarter of a century in the past, present some very real
dangers in the present. As the bodies start piling up,
Belzer finds a legendary hit man hot on his trail and must
utilize all of his talents not only to pull off a successful
telethon but to solve one of our history's most scandalous
conspiracies before his Vegas stint becomes his closing act.
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