Wise Guy: A Christmas Tale (Kindle Single)

Wise Guy: A Christmas Tale (Kindle Single)

The twelve crimes of Christmas: Bart Sagan is a thief, yes, but more or less a good guyâ€”at least, he wouldnâ€™t rob an orphanage if he didnâ€™t have to. Not at Christmastime, anyway. But then the local crime boss Harry King loses a shipment of drugs and orders Bart to burglarize the twelve addresses to which itâ€™s been accidentally sent.

Can Bart and his ragtag band of independent criminals keep their Christmas spirit while breaking and entering at the behest of a drug lord? Can they keep their lives if they donâ€™t?

A comic crime caper for the holiday, â€œWise Guyâ€ retells the story of Balthasar, one of the three Wise Men who followed a Star from the East for the first Christmas. Or as much of Balthasar, anyway, as a confused and slightly hangdog minor thief can manage. As much of a Wise Man as a Wise Guy can be.

The author of three bestselling Kindle Singles, Joseph Bottum is a widely published essayist and poetâ€”whose account of winter on the American prairie, â€œThe Christmas Plainsâ€ (from Image/Random House), has been named an instant holiday classic. He is, as the essayist Andrew Ferguson has noted â€œone of Americaâ€™s most gifted writers, with a perfect ear and a matchless style." He lives far off in the Black Hills of South Dakota. â€œWise Guyâ€ is his first foray into Christmas fiction.
Country USA
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2012-11-23
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2012-11-23
Format	Kindle eBook