I grabbed this book based on the cover blurb that mentioned “nine kinds of twisted and funny as hell” which sounds pretty good to me. This turned out to be pretty accurate. Some of the characters in this book will stay with me. Larry, the “odd” neighbor who proves to have some pretty important kidnap and “extraction” skills when it comes down to it, and Calhoun who presents as the “special” neighbor living in a 300 square foot mother-in-law apartment who later turns out to be a multi-millionaire early employee of Microsoft in addition to being the annoying busy body is also entertaining. But really, the story revolves around Dan, a speechwriter working at a high tech company who is trying to make it for 3 more days until his stocks vest and then he is cashing out and running for the hills. Unfortunately, there are some people out there who are making this task difficult. The bitter ex-IT group who is blackmailing Dan to do something for them that he doesn’t even understand, the shady board members who have a lot of money in the game and Dan himself who has made a few spectacularly bad choices lately that put it all at risk. Very entertaining book but the author may focus a little too much on poor Dan getting nailed in the family jewels…over and over again.
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