Repulse Monkey: Book 2, The Alex Glauberman Series

✍ Scribed by Dick Cluster

• Book ID: 110612911
• Publisher: booksBnimble
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 179 KB
• Series: Alex Glauberman 2
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780990454380
• ASIN: B00VUEEFY2

✦ Synopsis

“Step Back to Repulse Monkey,” is the name of a tai chi position, one that Boston-based auto mechanic Alex Glauberman finds particularly apt, in his given circumstances. It’s now a year since Alex’s first brush with murder and detection recounted in RETURN TO SENDER. He has recovered -- as far as he can tell -- from cancer and chemotherapy, he’s studying tai chi for its inherent pleasures and therapeutic effects, and getting on with his life. He and his girlfriend Meredith are negotiating whether the time is right for her to move in together with him and his nine-year-old daughter Maria, when he makes a routine call to check in with the babysitter, and learns she has left. “She said it was an emergency,” Maria reports to him. “She said the emergency was that somebody was dead.” More worrisome still, the babysitter, college student Suzanne Lutrello, cannot be found, and then her ex-boyfriend is savagely killed. Alex tries to trace and to hide Suzanne, who might be a murderer or might be the next victim. Outrunning pursuers and threats, to keep up with the threatened and pursued, he navigates the world of old Boston money to its intersection with small-town corruption, high-end prostitution, and drug-addiction recovery, in a life-or-death finish amid the stark white New England winter woods.