Emergency Exit (The Irish Lottery Series Book 6)
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Outside, next to the row of garbage cans, Gretchen looked up and down the length of the sidewalk. It was 2 AM. The street was deserted. The lights of the bodega were five doors down across the street. There was no sign of the wino who usually sat outside, and who she gave some spare change to when she had some. She was alone in New York City.
She slipped behind the row of garbage cans. Nobody would be able to see her here. She lifted up the hem of her dress, pulled down her panties. She took a dump on the sidewalk and giggled. She had almost found North. But not quite.
THE END
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Did you love Emergency Exit? Then you should read An Embarrassment of Riches by Gerald Hansen!
“A Masterpiece!” Colin Quinn
When Ursula Barnett and her husband Jed win the Irish lottery, they think their troubles are over. But they are just beginning.
Ursula coerces her Yank husband to retire in her hometown of Derry, Northern Ireland, hoping to atone for her youthful sins as a collaborator with the IRA in the 1970s. At the first sniff of Ursula’s lotto win, however, her chronically greedy sister-in-law Fionnuala Flood rallies the family against Ursula.
Fionnuala’s life is a misery. She is married to a boozing fish-packing plant worker and raising seven seedy hooligans, from a convict son to an eight-year-old devil-daughter who will resort to desperate measures to secure the perfect Holy Communion gown. Between two part-time jobs, Fionnuala still finds the energy to put into motion plans which pit husbands against wives, daughters against mothers, the lawless against the law and Fionnuala against anyone fool enough to cross her path.
Family saga and black comedy, love story and courtroom drama, An Embarrassment of Riches will take you on a journey to Northern Ireland and beyond, where Protestants and Catholics wage battle daily, and where crossing family with finance leads to passion and tragedy, heartache and hilarity.
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About the Author
Best-selling author Gerald Hansen was a Navy brat, starting school in Thailand, graduating high school in Iceland, with Germany, California and his mother's hometown of Derry, Northern Ireland in between. He attended Dublin City University, and also lived in London and Berlin. The first of the five-part Irish Lottery Series, An Embarrassment of Riches, was an ABNA semifinalist in 2011. He loves music, spicy food, traveling the world (still!), and wearing Ben Sherman. He now lives in New York City.
Photo by Marcin Kaliski
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