Slow Down
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Any wish fulfilled...for the right price.
The sun rose and fell and we remained stuck to her bedsheets and each other.
While youth has its advantages, you are green to the ways of business.
Dream as if you will live forever. Live as if you will die today.
Darling it's all a crapshoot with Gable. Never know if you're rolling snake eyes.
It was the first time I thought of the devil in relation to him. A quick flash of horns.
I should've known that when you make a deal with the devil, he only takes and takes until there'd be nothing left but bones and dust.
Honey, I'm Marilyn Fucking Monroe. And don't you forget it.
On an unseasonably warm winter's morning, I took my first life.
She bent over me like a hovering angel, gave one last tear-filled kiss before sticking the gun between my eyes.
She's two personas. Kinda like me. Kinda like everyone. The self we keep hidden and the one we reveal to the world.
If you had more money than you knew what to do with, what would you desire?
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A PULSE-POUNDING THRILLER THAT ASKS HOW FAR WE'RE WILLING TO SHED OUR MORALS IN ORDER TO HELP THE ONES WE LOVE.
It's 1978 in New York City, and disco is prominent. As are mobsters, gritty streets, needle parks and graffiti-stained subways.
Jake Barnum lives in Hell's Kitchen. He's a petty thief selling hot coats with his buddy Maggs to make ends meet and help his sick kid brother. At a Halloween party downtown, he meets a woman with a Marilyn Monroe mask who works for an organization called The Desire Card-an underground operation promising its exclusive clients "Any Wish Fulfilled for the Right Price."
As Jake becomes taken with its leader, a pseudo father and sociopath at heart, he starts stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. In other words...himself. But as he dives deeper in with the Card, begins falling love with Marilyn, and sees the money rolling in, clients' wis
Book details
- First published
- 2022
- Author
- Lee Matthew Goldberg
- Genre
- Fiction
- Goodreads rating
- 4.27 (4k ratings)
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