Flinch Author:Robert Ferrigno His last novel, Heartbreaker, was called by the Chicago Tribune ?recklessly exciting and wildly funny. [It leaves the] reader gasping for air and begging for more.? With Flinch, Robert Ferrigno?s electrifying and darkly funny new novel, we get what we?ve been waiting for. — At the center is Jimmy Gage, a tabloid writer for Sl... more »ap magazine who?s been contacted by someone calling himself ?The Eggman,? a serial killer who has laid claim to six unsolved murders around Los Angeles?except the whole thing is declared a publicity hoax by the police, who?ve branded Jimmy a publicity hound.
But then a year later, crime-scene photographs of the murders turn up in the possession of Jimmy?s brother, Jonathan, a high-profile plastic surgeon. Although Jimmy acknowledges that this makes Jon-athan a suspect, he also realizes that this might be simply one more round in the psychological games the brothers have been playing?and Jonathan mostly winning?since they were children. It?s a twisted sibling rivalry newly charged by Jonathan?s recent marriage to Jimmy?s former girlfriend.
Throw into the mix Jonathan?s impeccable standing in the community (as compared to Jimmy?s lack of one) . . . the female detective who can?t decide which brother to believe . . . and the thugs, con-artists, baby-faced brainiacs, and hard-edged women who are potentially lethal distractions in Jimmy?s life.
But the distractions will have to wait: Jimmy?s committed to discovering the identity of the killer, and no one gets a better pay-off from his obsession than the reader of this edgy, fast-forward, unstoppably entertaining novel.« less