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Overview
Legendary curmudgeon and hustler extraordinaire Eddie Caminetti has taken on the Ryder Cup (The Green), unrepentant sinners (The Foursome), and the entire golf equipment industry (Scratch). But enough with the small stuff: In Barranca, Eddie is called upon by the U.S. government to go after a South American economic terrorist threatening the only commodity capable of destabilizing the entire Western Hemisphere.Yes, Manuel Villa Lobos de Barranca is out to corner the market on coffee.
When a grande (small) cup of Starbucks hits $20, riots break out in cities and towns all over America, worker productivity plummets, and the very fabric of society begins unraveling. But there's nothing the government can do about it because the scrupulously honest and upright de Barranca (Stanford, '96) is running his revolution without firing a shot or breaking any laws, which makes him the most dangerous subversive since Gandhi.
But he's nuts about golf, positively fanatic about betting, and that's where Eddie Caminetti comes in. Armed with only fourteen weapons of mass destruction (the most you're allowed to carry in your bag), he sets up a match against de Barranca on which hangs the very fate of Western civilization.
In the hands of master storyteller Troon McAllister, impending doom has never been more fun.
Editorials
David Feherty
"There's a trinity of temptations that afflict the Irish: liquor, literature and the links. All three abound in the new Eddie Caminetti golf hustler novel from Troon McAllister. After his three previous novels (The Green, The Foursome and last year's Scratch), McAllister was clearly going to have to pull a rabbit out of his porthole to avoid a senior slump. And somehow he pulls it off, combining the Cuban revolution, coffee speculation, the inanity of beltway politics and the purity of flushing a one-iron into a hilarious literary conga line -- proving that nobody writes better about golf in all of its glorious stupidity."—CBS golf analysts, writing in The New York Post, May 16:
Book Details
Published
April 3, 2004
Publisher
Rugged Land, LLC
Pages
320
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781590710234