Akhmed and the Atomic Matzo Balls: A Novel of International Intrigue, Pork-Crazed Termites, and Motherhood

by Gary Buslik

Overview

Iranian president Akhmed teams up with the leaders of Venezuela and Cuba and their American intelligence agents to smuggle radioactive matzo balls into Miami Beach. But intelligence being as slippery a concept to these nincompoops as chicken fat on linoleum, when each member of the gang decides to ladle out his own personal nuke soup, holy terror Akhmed is left steaming. Will his plan to destroy America float like a fly or sink like a lead dumpling?

Star-crossed lovers, conniving academics, and blustery social climbers collide with ravenous termites, international do-badders, and multi-level marketing in a plot as fast-paced and hilarious as a runaway mountain bus. Radioactivity has never been so much fun.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781609520700
Publisher:	Travelers' Tales Guides, Incorporated
Publication date:	12/20/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	370
File size:	693 KB

About the Author

Gary Buslik doesn't have the faintest idea how to make an honest living. He writes novels, short stories, and essays and, in case the government should ask any questions, teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Illinois at Chicago—which isn't quite an honest living, but you work with what you have.
He lives in Lake County, Illinois, in a mostly Republican subdivision with streets named after American weapons systems, housewives who don't work, no sidewalks, and a front gate where guards inspects trunks for subversive literature, such as the Emancipation Proclamation.
He windsurfs and plays softball. He thinks Capra's It's a Wonderful Life is the stupidest movie ever made, although he likes Donna Reed.

Editorial Reviews

“Akhmed and the Atomic Matzo Balls is peopled by some of the most unpleasant, malevolent, and stupid characters you can imagine — but it’s so clever and funny that I, the reader, was delighted to follow their complicated, self-serving, insane machinations. … Gary Buslik loves words. His prose is rich and vivid.” —Bookworm Room

Akhmed and the Atomic Matzo Balls "definitely contains many thoroughly revolting, brain-curdling, nail-biting scenes that will ensure you will not only be unable to close it before you are through; no, you shall remain wide awake rereading some especially and sickeningly delicious passages." —Simply Jews blog

"You will love this book! It has been a long time since I have laughed like this — it's the best since Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." —NoisyRoom blog

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