FUN CITY HEIST

MICHAEL KARDOS

Fun City Heist by Michael Kardos is just that—an entertaining and literary caper novel. Fun City is an amusement park reminiscent of past times when families and kids would walk the boardwalk near the ocean, eating junk food and playing games that were surely rigged.

Our heroes reunite for one last music performance. After being in a band for 10 or so years, the frontman has returned to the East Coast from Florida, begging the drummer and protagonist to perform one more gig. It takes a little while for the reader to find out precisely what is going on. But when that tidbit is exposed, the reader is in for a wild ride, as if getting on a Ferris wheel and never being able to get off.

Fun City Heist combines superior writing, a familiar yet well-executed plot, crystal-clear character portraits, and memorable dialogue.

Take a visit to an imaginary East Coast boardwalk, smell the cotton candy, and play a few rigged games. Maybe, if you’re lucky, you will run into some of the guys who make Fun City Heist what it is, a fun book, a sad book, but most of all a well-written book that readers will remember.