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    Billboard Man
    Billboard Man
    Billboard Man
    Audiobook5 hours

    Billboard Man

    Written by Jim Fusilli

    Narrated by Patrick Lawlor

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    About this audiobook

    A man alone takes to the road following the brutal murder of his wife. After years lost to drifting and isolation—except for the comfort of the kind of women he cannot deny—he finds himself swept into a world of violence and danger, his life in the hands of a madman. Freed by an unexpected savior, he returns to the road, still a haunted man who remains the target of his estranged daughter’s scorn.

    But as he wanders from the red-rock spires of Arizona to Sun Studios in Memphis, he succumbs to sordid temptation—and is soon accused of murder. To clear himself, he must find the real killer, unaware that his nemesis, a Wall Street power broker, is manipulating him from afar and has unleashed a killer on his trail—and the trail of his daughter.

    The second novel in the Sam series, Jim Fusilli’s Billboard Man pulls the drifter off the long, dark road once again—long enough for him to find that the world is small when so many people want him dead.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateDec 3, 2013
    ISBN9781480557383
    Billboard Man
    Author

    Jim Fusilli

    Jim Fusilli is a native of Hoboken, New Jersey, which serves as a model for the city of Narrows Gate in his fiction. A graduate of St. Peter’s College, he joined The Wall Street Journal in the early 1980s and has been the newspaper’s rock and pop music critic since 2008. He is the author of six novels and numerous short stories. He and his wife, public-relations executive Diane Holuk Fusilli, live in New York City. They have one daughter.

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    • 4/5
      Jim Fusilli’s Billboard Man is the second novel in the “Sam” series featuring a drifter who walked out of a witness protection program. In the first book, Road to Nowhere, Sam’s wife was murdered because of his activity as informant about criminals' activities. Sam’s daughter blames him for her mother’s death. Using the name Donald Harry Bliss, Sam travels around the US supporting himself with the use of illegally obtained IDs and credit cards. He is apparently nothing special, a man with no qualities who meets his physical needs rather effortlessly with little passion. Sam does not seem to have much in the way of fighting skills or expertise in weapons. In his travels, Sam likes to hang out in low-end bars and higher-end restaurants. He wears white dress shirts and jeans that he buys frequently and often leaves them in hotels when he checks out. A blazer is used for formal occasions.Sam is pursued by Francis Cherry, an eccentric billionaire responsible for a severe beating Sam had received in book 1. The man without qualities stays one step ahead of the resourceful billionaire pursued by henchmen employed by Cherry. In Sam’s aimless wanderings, he effortlessly attracts working class risk-taking women involving their boyfriends in dangerous and in some cases deadly adventures related to Cherry’s pursuit. Sam’s estranged daughter is a successful novelist who becomes vulnerable to Cherry’s traps set to ensnare Sam. But, a broken-down old drunk ex-CIA operative and a role-playing video devotee good at internet searching on retainers by Cherry have little success in catching the man without qualities. There is something about Sam that makes the reader care about his thoughts and motivations even though his depression hides the potentially good/bad intentions he has in mind. I did not read volume 1 of the Sam series, but information is included in volume 2 to understand the situation Sam is in.I am considering sticking with this series to discover more of Sam’s motivations and see if he resolves his problems with depression.
    • 3/5
      Billboard Man deals with a drifter, who after his wife was murdered when he testified against the mob. He is estranged from his daughter and lives off the money from his wife’s estate. This all happened in the first novel in the series and this one deals with a number of people trying to locate him and who want his dead. You don’t really need to read the first book, but it would help; especially to understand this character. It is a quick read, but still “Jack Reacher” flashed through my mind when reading it.