About This Book
Former businessman and first generation immigrant, Zoltán Kovacs becomes penniless and old and forced to live in a Bronx rooming house with other pathetic or unsavory characters. There is no hope except con man, Michael Vitray who concocts a basic get rich quick scheme and offers it to Zoltán. Zoltán should marry Natasha, the Russian ex ballerina, one of their fellow lodgers, take a life insurance out on her and bang, she dies and they collect. Zoltán already been married three times, his last wife, Beatrice took him to the cleaners and froze all his assets. Natasha suggests they whack Beatrice and get back the money. She knows the perfect man for the job, Vladimir, an ex Russian diplomat, the only caveat being, Vladimir needs a hefty sum in advance must borrow from his oldest daughter whose marriage to a rich man is on the rocks. If circumstances require so, can a decent man turn to crime in opposition to his conscience? Yes, he can and he must. Will he get caught, or confess and give himself up; can he carry the burden that other people are punished for his mistakes and wrongdoings? Can an egoistic, self-centered womanizer ever admit his transgressions; realize he must change his ways to earn the respect of anyone, anyone, but mostly his immediate family? A tormented soul, an irreverent remake of Crime and Punishment, will his youngest daughter, Melanie who accuses her father of the possibly most horrible deed, complicity in the murder of her mother, will she see his innocence and come to his rescue at the end?
