Buzz Monkey A Novel of Crime Author:Sam Hill Top Kiernan has been doing all right. He owns Polymath, a thriving research firm which he runs from his homethe 1930s-era schoolhouse hes renovating just outside of Athens, Georgia. Hes got a bedroom in a basketball court, a handful of flannel shirts, and a splendid collection of tops. He also has a serious habit: Top is addict... more »ed to the adrenaline buzz of danger, though periodic perilous errands to Latin America for Shaws Mercantile help him handle that. Only now Tops long-best friend, Dee Lane, has disappeared with a fortune that belongs to Atlanta drug lord Raoul Menes. And in Buzz Monkeys shifty world of hazardous secrets and hostile camps, Top finds himself the target not merely of Menes but also of ambitious DEA agents, a retired IRA assassin and his heavily armedaughter, a gang of meth-cooking rednecks, an urbane CIA recruiter, and two hired killers in sharkskin suits because everyone thinks Dee left the money with him. Top knows he is working against time and its going to take more than adrenaline to survive the maneuvers of all the players in the dangerous game that this deftly plotted debut novel brings unpredictably to a stunning, just, and explosive finish.« less