Fugitive Moon - by Ron Faust (Paperback)

About the Book

Teddy Moon, ace major league relief pitcher, manic-depressive, and occasional amnesiac--is convinced that he's being framed for the bizarre murders of several transsexuals who are turning up in the garbage chutes of his team's various hotels. Hounded by the police, the Legion of Fear, and the elite cadres of the Politically Correct, Teddy takes off cross-country on a manic binge to find someone who doesn't think he did it. He appeals to an ex-wife in Iowa, his heretical psychiatrist at the Alamo Ranch Sanitorium in New Mexico, and finally throws himself into the many arms of his neo-Hindu girlfriend in Hollywood, but no one believes his story--and why should they? Only Moon, with the help of his alter egos Don Coyote and the Baseballman, can find the truth--and the murderer. Maybe.

Book Synopsis

Teddy Moon, ace major league relief pitcher, manic-depressive, and occasional amnesiac-is convinced that he's being framed for the bizarre murders of several transsexuals who are turning up in the garbage chutes of his team's various hotels. Hounded by the police, the Legion of Fear, and the elite cadres of the Politically Correct, Teddy takes off cross-country on a manic binge to find someone who doesn't think he did it. He appeals to an ex-wife in Iowa, his heretical psychiatrist at the Alamo Ranch Sanitorium in New Mexico, and finally throws himself into the many arms of his neo-Hindu girlfriend in Hollywood, but no one believes his story--and why should they? Only Moon, with the help of his alter egos Don Coyote and the Baseballman, can find the truth--and the murderer. Maybe.

Review Quotes

"One of those steady writers who always turns out a superior story. . . . Faust has created a fugitive for all seasons."
--Publishers Weekly

"A writer of enormous talent, a stylist to admire and a storyteller of great power."
--Scott Turow, author of Presumed Innocent

"Faust writes beautifully . . . he reminds you of Hemingway and Peter Matthiessen. . . . Faust has it all: lyrical prose, complex characters and provocative plots."
--Booklist

"Faust's clear, unadorned prose and his deft, pure characterization ring with the force of Hemingway or Graham Greene."
--Publishers Weekly

About the Author

RON FAUST is the author of fourteen previous thrillers. He has been praised for his "rare and remarkable talent" (Los Angeles Times), and several of his books have been optioned for films. Before he began writing, he played professional baseball and worked at newspapers in Colorado Springs, San Diego, and Key West.

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