When your ex-boss's sex doll goes missing, and you're the prime suspect, what could possibly go wrong?
Rollo Hemphill's life has never been simple, but now it's downright surreal. Fleeing Paris after a dubious charity scandal, he's pulled back into chaos when Hugo Farnsworth's most prized possession - a lifelike doll mistaken for a real celebrity - vanishes from his yacht in the South of France.
Armed with nothing but disguises, confusing codewords, and Felicia's occasional financial lifeline, Rollo must navigate spy games, shady art collectors, and painfully introspective nights in creepy laundromats. Oh, and the doll's severed ear might just hold the key to meeting the crazed kidnapper's bizarre demands.
From the Riviera to the Bosphorus, Rollo chases answers, avoids jail, and maybe - just maybe - learns to grow up and make it home.
In this outrageous sequel to Rubber Babes, award-winning novelist Gerald Everett Jones serves up farce, philosophy, and juggernaut fun.
Farnsworth's Revenge is a sendup of modern love, scandal, and the wild things we do to make things right when we fear we've had it all wrong all along.
"On the lam in Paris, computer geek-turned-shamus Rollo Hemphill is on the prowl for a kidnapped blonde. A rich old man's plaything, this doll has a famous face, legs up to here, and all the right equipment. A soft-boiled dick if ever there was one, Rollo learns too late that, as usual, the yolk is on him." - Marvin J. Wolf, author of For Whom The Shofar Blows and other Rabbi Ben Mysteries
About the Author :
Gerald Everett Jones is a freelance writer who lives in Santa Monica, California. He is a board member of the Writers & Publishers Network and host of the GetPublished! Radio podcast. He holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honors from the College of Letters, Wesleyan University, where he studied under novelists Peter Boynton (Stone Island), F.D. Reeve (The Red Machines), and Jerzy Kosinski (The Painted Bird, Being There).Find out more at geraldeverettjones.com. Read his interviews and blog posts at Thinking About Thinking on Substack @geraldeverettjones.
Review :
"The first requirement to be a fan of Farnsworth's Revenge is an ability to suspend belief. While the scenario of a kidnapped life-size replica inviting international espionage seems far-fetched, the story succeeds in painting a satisfying blend of possibility and madness in a manner designed to attract male readers with an interest in fast-paced espionage stories that hold a healthy dose of angst, witty mishaps and misadventure... Blend all this zaniness with emotional reflections as Rollo strives to reconcile differences between many different factions (not the least of which is his girlfriends) and you have a blend of action, drama, humor, and laugh-out-loud reflections revolving around the male ego and its responses... Don't expect a book that's easily 'pegged': Farnsworth's Revenge provides a read that's out of the ordinary and excels in unexpected twists and turns of plot; all spiced by comedy and hilarious encounters between Rollo and forces that pull him in different emotional and intellectual directions. It's recommended for mature teens (ages 16 and older) as well as adult audiences." - D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review
