FEELERS

"Brain M. Wiprud's whacked-out FEELERS is fast, foxy fun."
- - Janet Evanovich

 "Thriller - Brian Wiprud's FEELERS, about a "home content removal" expert who finds close to a million dollars stashed in a Brooklyn apartment only to discover others are after the same loot, including a recently paroled prison assassin, to Michael Homler at St. Martin's, by Alex Glass at Trident Media Group (world)."
 -- Publishers Lunch

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FEELERS
Morty Martinez is known in the industry of estate liquidation as a "feeler." If you were to look him up in the Brooklyn yellow pages, he would be listed under "home content removal," but his real job is looking for stashes of cash crammed into tin cans that have been left out of wills, kept out of banks, and hidden away for decades by the frugal elderly suspicious of ATMs and the IRS. When Morty hits upon the biggest score of his life, over $800,000.00, he knows that news travels fast and he must operate quickly and carefully to safeguard his booty, his life and his destiny as patrician of a seaside Mexican village. But what he doesn't know is that there are others after the same buried treasure, including the recently paroled prison assassin Danny Kessel.

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"Officially, Morty Martinez cleans out the houses of dead people in this highly amusing mystery from Lefty Award–winner Wiprud (Pipsqueak). Actually, as Morty explains in his charming if egotistical voice, he’s a “feeler” who searches for the money that senior citizens tend to stash around their homes. Morty’s overjoyed to find $800,000 on one job in Brooklyn, until the discovery attracts the covetous attention of other feelers and a greedy ex-cop who believes the cash is part of the hidden loot from an armored car heist. Meanwhile, one of the armored car robbers comes looking for the money after being released from prison, where he became a hair-trigger killer with an ice pick. Challenged to stay alive while hanging onto his prize, Morty prepares for a luxurious retirement in Mexico, where he looks forward to a new career as a Latin lover. That readers know Morty survives his various travails doesn’t lessen the suspense as he faces one catastrophe after another."
-- Publisher’s Weekly *STARRED REVIEW*

"A guy who cleans out dead people’s houses turns up $800,000 worth of trouble.  Those in the know call Morty Martinez one of the best feelers in Brooklyn. He has a nose for which houses are most likely to conceal unsuspected valuables that his home content removal service can then vacuum into his savings account. It’s all perfectly legal, but that’s not much reassurance to Morty when he finds a flock of coffee cans packed with U.S. currency while he’s cleaning out the Trux home on Vanderhoosen Drive. No sooner has Morty squirreled the cash away in a self-storage locker than he’s besieged by competitors who’d like the money even more than he would. There’s professional rival Pete the Prick and his enforcers, the fearsome Balkan Boys. There’s mannerly Danny Kessel, who after 15 years in prison for his role in an armored car heist kills a man with an icepick his first day out. There’s retired Brooklyn cop Charlie Binder, who’s had an eye cocked for the $5 million snatched from that armored car ever since Danny went down. Morty’s also besieged by a shapely hairdresser named Fanny, but she may just be after his body—which is what he’s going to end up as if he doesn’t find some way to distract his pursuers, for instance by getting them to pursue each other instead of him.
Wiprud (Tailed, 2007, etc.) switches his point of view so often and suddenly that you’ll risk whiplash. But you’ll gasp with laughter and surprise all the way to the hospital."
-- Kirkus Reviews

“Although the body count rises steadily, this is a rollicking, high-energy tale that recalls Donald Westlake’s comic caper novels.”
-- Thomas Gaughan, Booklist

“This is not only humorous and hard-boiled but thrilling and full throttle as well. Wiprud and the brilliant characters he has created are welcome on my bookshelf at any time.”
-- Crooked Magazine

“Brian Wiprud breaks new ground with Feelers, his biggest and best novel to date. It’s a white-knuckle ride through an underworld that lies somewhere between the mean streets of Brooklyn and the author’s matchless imagination. The characters are unforgettable, the action hypnotic, the writing is sharp. I’ve never read a book quite like it.”
-- T. Jefferson Parker, Author of L.A. OUTLAWS

“An epistolary novel can be slow moving and boring, but those would be the last words to describe Wiprud’s book. The action never stops, and laugh-out-loud-funny scenes combine with a sympathetic hero who’s a blind romantic like his late father. Secondary characters are vividly drawn, as is the Brooklyn that is Wiprud’s setting. “Brilliant” and “funny” are the only words to describe this.”
-- Page Traynor, Romantic Times *Top Pick*

“This is an enjoyable suspense thriller mindful of It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World as everyone seemingly in the Big Apple wants a bite out of the anti-hero’s butt. The story line is fast-paced once Morty finds the loot and even faster is the underground gossip network. Brian M. Wiprud provides the audience with a terrific tale in which Morty may be dreaming of senoritas, but he can’t safely get to New Jersey.”
-- Harriet Klausner, Midwest Book Review

"Take Donald Westlake at the height of his game, Add Elmore Leonard with the tone of Freaky Deaky and Glitz, then stir in Charles Willeford as he was in Miami Blues, plonk it down in Brooklyn and you'd have ...Feelers. Just loved it."
-- Ken Bruen

"FEELERS is a wild, clever, twisted -- and twisty-- joyride from its first page through its last. Darkly hilarious -- an absolute keeper!"
--C.J. Box, author of BLUE HEAVEN

"I dare you not to root for conquistador-at-heart Morty Martinez, whose epistolary confessions drive this story like a souped-up '69 Camaro. FEELERS is part caper, part character study, and all heart. It reads like Michael Koryta and Charlie Huston had a love child with a sense of humor and the soul of a poet. Just plain great."
-- J.T. Ellison, author of ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS

"Feelers is a tightly crafted, perfectly plotted thriller. Readers will be rooting for the likeable and clever Morty Martinez until the final, unpredictable page."
-- Alafair Burke, author of ANGEL'S TIP

"Feelers is exciting, tough and original. The prose is expert, the action's hot, the good guy's a hoot and the bad guy's really bad. It's a page-turner, start to finish."
--Andrew Klavan, author of True Crime and Empire of Lies