Pennies For Her Eyes

About the Book

I was sitting on a wet bike in frigid water, watching waves the size of three-story buildings slide toward me, hump up, then hump up again getting even taller before crashing down with a sound like a Las Vegas casino imploding. I could be in one of those casinos, a fancy one, too, because they liked me and wanted me to work for them, or I could be on Wall Street moving around billion-dollar chunks of money. But instead I was here, cold and anxious and very soon I'd have to drive the wet bike in front of one of these waves, dragging a beautiful redhead behind me on the end of a towline, and if -- when--she fell I'd have to go get her. Or die trying. That was the part I didn't like, the "die trying." My name is T. R. Macdonald and believe it or not this was the good part. People hadn't started stuffing me in the trunks of cars or shooting at me. Yet.

About the Author

James R. Preston spends most of his time at the keyboard, writing the award-winning Surf City Mysteries—think "beach noir." Pennies For Her Eyes is the fourth novel in this series and was preceded by Leave A Good-Looking Corpse, Read 'Em And Weep, and The Road To Hell. You can read the opening chapter of each book at JamesRPreston.com. Away from the keyboard, James likes reading, films (especially 1950's SF like Them and The Crawling Eye), sailing. bodyboarding, and Texas Hold'Em Poker. James played in one of the 2011 World Series tournaments and sadly busted out early. This year will be different. www.JamesRPreston.com