Finally have finished up writing my Novel. Now have to go through and do the proofing, re-writing, and formatting. I hope to be done in 3 months. Will publish on Amazon and Barnes/Noble. Thanks for your patience. Here is a sneak peek. Tony
Welcome to Atlantic City, faded seaside resort city and east
coast Vegas, want to be. Playground to every jet setter, high roller, high
stakes Poker playing smuck, sleazebag and little old grey haired lady trying to
get a piece of the gamblers dream to make that one big score. This is my
territory; my name is Frank Vagola, Atlantic City P.I. I’m an ex-cop from the
New York suburbs of Ridgefield Park New Jersey.
After putting in my 20 years of service to qualify for a full pension I
retired from the police force. Things
were getting too corrupt for my liking anyway.
Also New Jersey Policies were starting to get to me. Over time we public servants have lost
respect from the public we are paid to serve.
Being there have been many scandals involving crooked cops I see why
this is. These days I spend my time in
private practice as a private investigator, have an office above my garage in a
small house I rent in Absecon New Jersey.
It’s not glamorous but it pays the bills and keeps me out/in trouble on a
daily basis. Mostly spend my times
following cheating spouses around to motels alone the major highways of New
Jersey. Speaking of which I have lived
in my whole life and intend on dying here too.
If you tell people,
from other parts of the country, that you are from New Jersey they make some
bad joke by stating, “Oh yea, which exit”?
This joke is referring to the
fact that Route 95, called the New Jersey Turnpike, is the main road most
people associate with our great state.
The reason for this is that the Newark airport is located on the New
Jersey Turnpike. Also that area is full
of many chemical plants that emit bad smells and tons of pollution into the
atmosphere. So when people are driving
or getting driven out of the airport they pass through this area and it makes a
bad first impression on them. We all
know how hard it is to change a bad first impression of anything. This is why it’s so important for restaurants
to look clean and well maintained on the outside. If it looks bad from the outside people won’t
even give it a chance. So New Jersey is like a rundown restaurant that may
never get a chance to show off how good their food is being the bad first
impression ruins it. Anyway I have gone
off on a tangent about my lovely state of New Jersey back to the story of how I
almost got killed investigating another routine case of a couple getting
intimidated by mobsters they owed money too.
So I thought it was going to be another
easy routine case for me. I didn’t know
what I was getting myself involved with for this case until it was almost too
late.
