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    The Château
    The Château
    The Château
    Audiobook10 hours

    The Château

    Written by Paul Goldberg

    Narrated by Neil Hellegers

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    About this audiobook

    It is January 2017 and Bill has hit rock bottom. Yesterday, he was William M. Katzenelenbogen, successful science reporter at the Washington Post. But things have taken a turn. Fired from his job, aimless, with exactly $1,219.37 in his checking account, he learns that his college roommate, a plastic surgeon known far and wide as the "Butt God of Miami Beach," has fallen to his death under salacious circumstances. With nothing to lose, Bill boards a flight for Florida's Gold Coast, ready to begin his own investigation-a last ditch attempt to revive his career.

    There's just one catch: Bill's father, Melsor.

    Melsor Yakovlevich Katzenelenbogen-poet, literary scholar, political dissident, small-time-crook-is angling for control of the condo board at the Château Sedan Neuve, a crumbling high-rise in Hollywood, Florida, populated mostly by Russian Jewish immigrants. The current board is filled with fraudsters levying "special assessments" on residents, and Melsor will use any means necessary to win the board election. And who better to help him than his estranged son?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMay 22, 2018
    ISBN9781977382436
    The Château
    Author

    Paul Goldberg

    Paul Goldberg is the author of the novels The Yid, which was a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the National Jewish Book Award's Goldberg Prize for Debut Fiction, and The Château. As a reporter, Goldberg has written two books about the Soviet human rights movement, and co-authored (with Otis Brawley) the book How We Do Harm, an expose of the U.S. healthcare system. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Slate, The New York Times, and elsewhere. He is also the editor and publisher of The Cancer Letter, a publication focused on the business and politics of cancer. He lives in Washington, D.C.

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    • 5/5
      OMG, this series!I'm woefully behind in it (Audible to the rescue!) but The Chateau worked just fine as a standalone, so that was perfectly okay. It's billed as an erotic thriller, which gives it a slightly different flavor than the other series books that I've read thus far. Taking place in 1989, it tells the story of a heretofore unknown part of Kingsley's (here Lieutenant Kingsley Boissonneault, in later years he'll be known as Kingsley Edge) life, a rather..ahem...unusual mission he took part in as a member of a secret group within the French Foreign Legion.I loved seeing this small part of Kingsley's past, and this bit in Ms. Reisz's Q&A at the end:Q: Inside the cult's chateau, women reign and men are their willing slaves. How did the idea for such a community come about?A: Wishful thinking?both made me LOL and sigh wistfully at the same time. Well played, Ms. Reisz.The blurb for the next standalone series novel (Picture Perfect Cowboy) has me counting the days until its release; until then I've got some catching up to do!(Slight spoiler, so avert your eyes if you don't want to see it: Ha! I knew who Mr. Madame was going to end up being! But OMG, I did not suspect the true history of that hidden room...did I mention, this series...?)Rating: 4 1/2 stars / AI voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.
    • 2/5
      I've heard about Reisz's books for years and finally decided to give her a try with this Original Sinners stand-alone. While I'll admit she's a good writer, the story just wasn't for me. I have a feeling her fans will love it though.