Sweet Money Won by Mycroft Magnusson @MycroftMag

Sweet Money Won

I read this and yes it was FAB!! I have to clear the decks a little to give a few great books proper credit.

Book synopsis:

Rick and Liam are two small-time con artists who live in the Koreatown section of Los Angeles–Rick is addicted to internet porn and dangerous women, while Liam is a functioning alcoholic who loves the New England Patriots as much as life itself.

The partners push their luck one time too many, and while Rick is recovering from a life-altering beatdown he received at a casino, he falls in love with a mystery woman online, a webcam-girl known as Amethyst. When Rick learns that she lives across the city, where she has been forced into prostitution by a gang of Russian sex-traffickers, he sets out to save her.

In order to do that, however, he must betray his longtime partner and steal their savings, which Liam has built up with a series of shrewdly-placed sports bets. Rick makes his move, just as Liam places the mother of all wagers, on his beloved Patriots.

Things go horribly wrong, and the two friends find themselves scrambling for cash to stave off their leg-breaking Korean bookies. With only three days to raise all the money, the partners hatch a desperate scheme to blackmail a philandering US congressman. At the same time, their friendship is threatened by Rick’s wild, unpredictable new girlfriend.

Can the three of them pull it together and pull off their audacious plan? Will jealousy and suspicion tear them apart? Finally, what is Amethyst’s dark secret, and can these two screw-ups survive long enough to learn the terrible truth?

It’s all-in for Rick and Liam, in this sexy, fast-paced crime thriller – the debut novel from Mycroft Magnusson

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The Author

Mycroft Magnusson’s early years were spent following his father, a forensic accountant for the British Foreign Service, around the world. By the age of ten, Mycroft had lived in no less than fifteen different countries—mostly in Africa, the Middle East, and the Subcontinent. It was at this time that young Magnusson’s mother died of a rare blood ailment which was never fully diagnosed, and the boy soon began wending his way through the English boarding school system, ultimately finding himself with a oar in his hand at Oxford but no diploma.

As the only remaining child in the family, the lack of graduation drove a wedge between the boy and his father, and set in motion young Magnusson’s journey to find his place in the world. Not knowing where to start, he traced the steps of great men from the past—Teddy Roosevelt through the Amazon, Gandhi in India, Jesus’s forty days and nights in the Judean desert. Sustaining himself by performing the circus skills he learned as a boy, in a few short years Magnusson had navigated the world.

His most famous adventure which went awry was a failed solo crossing of the Pacific Ocean in a hot-air balloon. A fire forced the water-ditching of the airmobile, two-thirds of the way from Hawaii to Peru. Fortunately for Magnusson, he was rescued by Chilean fishermen, who had been lost at sea themselves for over thirty days. Only a short time later, he found himself manipulating votes in the basement of a house in Ohio (US).

Magnusson now lives in Portugal with his wife, a former Miss World contestant, and their two pets—a faithful black labrador, and a ringtail monkey with whom he occasionally does street performances in Lisbon.