Mandy

by John Rizzo

Overview

Mandy is a beautiful girl�very charming and intelligent. She has just one big problem�she can�t make up her mind what she wants most out of life�whether she should be the kept (not married) woman of a rich, older man who can give her all the luxuries she craves, or being the devoted wife of the man she truly loves.

The two men in Mandy�s love-life have their own problems. Jerry, the multi- millionaire, is in the throes of a no-holds-barred divorce battle with his fifth wife Sheila, who threatens to bring her husband before a court for sexually abusing their daughter, Jessica, when she was just three years old. Doug, Mandy�s true love, is striving to make a success of his own small company in the new wild-and-wooly Internet business, happily clashing with his hated rival Jerry, an old-school printing/publishing magnate.

Then there�s Les, Mandy�s brother, who set her up with the millionaire in the first place. In return for his service and loyalty, Jerry appoints Les the manager of his cash-rich Las Vegas casino. But Les comes to like and admire Doug, to the point where he actually advises his sister to make a go of it with the younger man. When Jerry learns of this�all hell breaks loose, and the Mafia gets involved.

With the scene changing back and forth from Chicago to Las Vegas to Davos, Switzerland, Mandy is a fast-moving tale that turns quickly from a heart-throbbing romance to a suspenseful thriller!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940150645646
Publisher:	American Communications Enterprises
Publication date:	08/08/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	405 KB

About the Author

John H. Rizzo, whose first novel, Augie, was published in 2012, is a veteran author and essayist. He is currently a writer for the Fra Noil, an Italian-American Magazine. For over twenty-five years he has written comprehensively on opera and Italian culture. Many of his essays can be read on www.italianoperachicago.com, the official Internet organ of the Italian Opera Company of Chicago, a professional organization which he founded in 2001, and of which he is the artistic director.
Mr. Rizzo also has an extensive professional background in music and theater, and has appeared in several made-in-Chicago films. Since 1999 he has been a faculty member at Oakton College in Des Plaines, Ill. where he teaches Western Civilization and various classes on Music, Film and Theater.

John H. Rizzo holds a Masters Degree in Theater from the University of Illinois and is the author and composer of several musicals for young people. He also made original translations of the choruses from the Agamemnon of Aeschylus for which he composed the music. In the summer he leads cultural tours of Greece and Italy.

He resides in a suburb of Chicago with his wife, Jan, and two cats.