Don Con

The Mafia comes to Comic-Con in this fast-paced suspense caper and outrageous pop culture satire. Joey Volpe hit the high watermark of his acting career when he played a small role as a mobster on The Sopranos. If you blinked, you missed it. But now he’s unemployed, broke, and forced to make a living by signing autographs at pop-culture fan conventions, or Fan-Cons, for $35 a pop. His lack of income, along with his chronic womanising, has put his marriage at risk, too. But Joey’s life gets even worse when real mobster Tony Rosetti shows up in the autograph line with a plan to rob the next Fan-Con - an offer Joey can’t refuse. When the heist goes awry, Joey has a beef with Rosetti and two long years to plan. Partnered with a smooth-talking con man, Joey is using all his acting skills on new projects: Revenge. Money. And saving his marriage. AUTHOR: Richard Armstrong is the author of God Doesn’t Shoot Craps, the world’s only novel about direct mail marketing. Armstrong’s articles have appeared in National Review, Washingtonian Magazine, Advertising Age, and many other publications. He lives with his wife Sharon and his dachshund Stardust in Washington, DC. SELLING POINTS: . Pure entertainment: A book that is both an exciting thriller and laugh-out-loud funny. . A caper novel with all the intrigue of Ocean’s 11 and The Bank Job. . A smart and witty satire on pop culture that riffs on The Sopranos, The Godfather, Star Trek, Comic-Con, The Sting, and more - the perfect crime novel for today’s pop-savvy reader. . Engaging, fun-to-read humor from an author with a great comic voice.