Stuff to Spy For

By Don Bruns

USA Today best-selling author

Best friends James Lessor and Skip Moore are still stuck in dead-end jobs, still living in their ratty apartment in Carol City, Florida, and still dreaming of hitting the big time. It seems those dreams are finally within reach when James lands a job to install a state-of-the-art security system for Synco Systems. There's a huge commission-and plenty of strings-attached. To collect on the cash, James will have to provide additional services by assuming the role of pretend boyfriend of Sarah Crumbly, an employee who's having an affair with Sandler Conroy, Synco's married president. When Sandler's wife offers James a tidy sum for the dirty details about what's going on at Synco, James and Skip resurrect their entrepreneurial dreams and go into the business of being spies. The spymobile-their beloved, rattletrap of a boxtruck-is on its last legs, and they'll have to spend a small fortune on spy equipment, but there's no business like spy business. In this spy game, James and Skip may be the ones who get played-or worse.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Oceanview Publishing
• Release date: Nov 2, 2009
• ISBN: 9781933515465

Don Bruns

Don Bruns is a singer and songwriter, a painter, a cook, a traveler, and stand-up-comic who has not decided what to do when he grows up. He is also the author of two mystery series. His “stuff series” showcases the unstoppable yet bumbling young private investigators, James Lessor and Skip Moore, and his “music series” features rock and roll writer Mick Sever. Don and his wife, Linda, live in South Florida.

Reviews for Stuff to Spy For

[bjmitch_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I think Stuff ti Die For would make a better movie than it does a book, which is something I never say. On the other hand, it is a funny book that will entertain you during this season when we all seem to accumulate "stuff."That's the reasoning behind one of our main character's latest get rich scheme. He is James Lessor and while he's waiting for one of his ideas to actually work, he works at a fast food place and lives in a crummy little apartment with his best friend since third grade, Eugene "Skip" Moore. Skip also has a dead-end job so they mainly live on food from James' job and beer. They went to college at Sam and Dave University and have student loan debt to pay off, but even so, when James gets a small inheritance, he uses it to buy a big box truck. They will go into business hauling all that stuff people pile up and don't have room for. Forget that neither knows how to drive a truck and certainly not how to back one up.Skip's girlfriend, Emily (good job, wealthy family, lives in high-rise) gets them their first hauling job. Jackie Fuentes has tossed out her cheating husband and needs someone to haul off all of his stuff. Accidentally, our heroes find an envelope leaking blood in the stuff. Inside is a finger with a class ring - their class! It belongs to Vic Maitlin, a guy who once saved Skip's life and is an old boyfriend of Emily's. Turns out his father is Rick Fuentes, aforesaid cheating husband. Vic is being held hostage. Everything goes downhill from there, with James and Skip right in the middle of it.I know all of this is silly and highly improbable, but that's why it's so much fun. Just forget logic and have a good time with this one. After all, don't you have enough stress this month? I got this e-book free on amazon.com a long time ago, and this was the perfect time to read it.Recommended for fun and stress reliefSource: free e-book Amazon.com