Known as a "feeler," Morty Martinez is in a unique line of
work cleaning out the dwellings of dead people. The "home
content removal" business can be profitable, and cutthroat,
since the remover becomes the owner of whatever he finds.
In addition to removing the contents left behind, Morty has
a nose for "tight ones," those tightly rolled stashes of
cash the late owners squirreled around their homes in
furniture, hollow spaces in walls and floors, drapery
valances, or any place they deemed safer than financial
institutions. However, Morty's latest job turns out to be
more lucrative than he could ever have imagined.
While clearing out a house in his Brooklyn neighborhood,
Morty discovers over $800,000 that is now legally his.
Though no one else knows the exact amount of his find, word
spreads fast to drinking buddies and rival business
associates -- as well as a greedy ex-cop. And someone
doesn't agree the money rightfully belongs to Morty.
Having just been released after 15 years in prison, the
quiet and polite Danny Kessel is looking for the missing $5
million from the armored car heist that put him behind
bars. Though a nice young man when he went to Sing Sing,
once there Danny perfected the skill of killing with an ice-
pick. He puts this expertise to use as he hunts down the
missing money -- and the man he thinks possesses it. With
so
many people after the money, will Morty be able to hold on
to it -- as well as his life?
Told from Morty's point of view in the form of a confession-
type missive to a priest, his accounting of these events is
in turn thrilling, chilling and amusing. Several twists at
the end make for an exhilarating and totally satisfying
conclusion.
Morty Martinez is known in the industry of estate
liquidation as a "feeler." If you were to look him up in
the Brooklyn yellow pages, he would be listed under "home
content removal," but his real job is looking for stashes
of cash crammed into tin cans that have been left out of
wills, kept out of banks, and hidden away for decades by
the frugal elderly suspicious of ATMs and the IRS. When
Morty hits upon the biggest score of his life, over
$800,000.00, he knows that news travels fast and he must
operate quickly and carefully to safeguard his booty, his
life and his destiny as patrician of a seaside Mexican
village. But what he doesn't know is that there are others
after the same buried treasure, including the recently
paroled prison assassin Danny Kessel.
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