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9780061451980

ROAR BUTTERFLIES MM

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    9780061451980

  • ISBN10:

    0061451983

  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publications
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Laid-off lathe operator-turned-private investigator Joe Sixsmith is suddenly very popular, and not just with the ladies. Though he doesn't know a putter from a nine iron, he's being implored to come to the rescue of one Christian Porphyry, the scion of the upper-crust family that owns the most exclusive country club in Luton. Porphyry faces expulsion for the heinous crime of cheating at golf.Inexplicably, political boss/crime czar "King Rat" Ratcliffe is also interested in employing Joe, offering him some very attractive surveillance work in sunny Spain. But Sixsmith's more intrigued by the first case, especially when a possible witness to the alleged indiscretion mysteriously vanishes.It's not unusual for Joe to feel out of his depth, but this time he feels out of his class too. Suddenly he faces a potentially fatal pummeling from a variety of sources-and is in grave peril of discovering just how dangerous a contact sport golf can be.

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The Roar of the Butterflies

Chapter One

'Fonlies

Joe Sixsmith was adrift in space.

Light years beneath him gleamed the tiny orb he was supposed to make contact with, but he knew it was an impossible dream.

His muscles had melted, his lungs ­were starved of oxygen, and the only part of his mind not paralyzed by terror was the bit that dealt with 'fonlies.

'Fonly I'd done this . . . 'fonly I'd done that . . .

"No use messing with 'fonlies," Aunt Mirabelle used to say. " 'Fonlies don't get your homework done, Joseph. You miss your football Saturday morning, you've got no one to blame 'cept yourself."

How right she was! No one to blame 'cept himself . . . except maybe Willie Woodbine for being such a social climber . . . and Beryl Boddington maybe for standing him up . . . and definitely Merv Golightly for having a mouth like the Channel Tunnel . . . but first and last and as usual, himself, Joseph Gaylord (even Mirabelle kept quiet about that) Sixsmith for always going boldly half-assed where nobody had ever come back from before!

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