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My second novel will be on sale Saturday.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nIt has been a long journey, and I enjoyed writing it.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The Dead Sea Bar and Grill is about tough guys with tender hearts who get involved in an elaborate con involving oil at the height of the 1977 oil embargo.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n If you want to laugh, cry and root for the underdog, the Dead Sea Bar and Grill is a book you\u2019ll love to read my novel.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Thank you,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Raul Hernandez<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cDon\u2019t consider this a visit. Look at it as a business opportunity. I\u2019ve got a job offer for you.\u201d \u2014 Butch Badovich<\/strong><\/p>\n (Excerpt from the novel)<\/strong><\/p>\n Synopsis<\/strong><\/p>\n It is 1977.<\/p>\n Oil is in short supply, disco is in full bloom, and the New York Yankees are on the verge of winning the World Series after a long drought.<\/p>\n Never mind all that.<\/p>\n Butch Badovich is a pint-size pimp who has a stable of women nobody wants. They are too fat, too old or too ugly. So Butch gives credit to shut-ins and other losers who are on fixed incomes so they can get serviced by his third-rate escort business.<\/p>\n Butch has his office in a booth at the Dead Sea Bar and Grill in New York City where his girlfriend Rosie keeps the books. The bar is a dive where con men and an assortment of thieves, robbers, street toughs and oddball characters congregate.<\/p>\n The pimp business is thriving but soon Butch\u2019s customers miss payments or thumb their noses at paying. The escort service is soon being crushed by debt.<\/p>\n Rosie suggests that Butch hire an aging former heavyweight boxer Frankie Finch as a collector and enforcer.<\/p>\n Frankie is living in the dank basement of New Jerusalem Church of God\u2019s Wondrous Signs and Marvelous Miracles, and working for a religious con man named Erasmus Jenkins who sold life insurance before got into the business of saving souls for Jesus.<\/p>\n Frankie is the church\u2019s janitor where life is very bleak.<\/p>\n Just when he is about to pull the trigger, Butch comes into the\u00a0basement and offers Frankie a job as his collector and enforcer.<\/p>\n Frankie goes to work for Butch and learns about Butch\u2019s dream: make\u00a0enough money and move to Arizona to get out of the New York City cold and open a fruit stand.<\/p>\n Butch bets all his pimp business savings at the racetrack on a horse\u00a0that is a very long shot. \u00a0The horse wins; Butch collects tens of\u00a0thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n Mob accountant Vincent Primello is fresh out of prison and needs a lot of cash to set up an elaborate con to rip off Arab and other oil barons out of a million dollars.<\/p>\n Primello convinces Butch to finance his race track winnings on the
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\nscam but\u00a0Primello\u00a0must agree to let Butch and Frankie help him with an elaborate con involving oil.<\/p>\n
\nSTEPPING ON THE DEVIL\u2019S TAIL published in 2015 is on Sale at Amazon and Kindle<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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