When a hard–bitten retired female spy who is supposed to be an ally dismisses you as “a middle-aged geek with a gun and unmerited confidence in your ability to handle a hard chance,” you may be out of your depth as a private investigator.
But John Rainwater, in his brief and penniless career as a PI, has never had a client like the beautiful, headstrong and very rich Morgana Trehane, who burst into his one-man office near the New Orleans docks to announce that she had just escaped from a trio of kidnappers.
Rainwater, a former English professor with a flair for research, has discovered that the mysterious White Stone that Morgana was grilled about by her abductors could be the realization of the ancient dream of turning base metal into gold.
But something far more terrible lurks in the web of lies, greed, violence and great peril into which Rainwater and Morgana are drawn by retired (and possibly insane) Mossad agent Roni Miller.
Idiot’s Tale is unlike any thriller you have ever read, careening between mordant humor and nihilistic darkness, on its way to an ending that will haunt you for a very long time.
