Second Responder by Tod Goldberg
From Tod Goldberg, the award-winning author of Gangsterland and Only Way Out, comes a feral crime story about a washed‑up golf hustler who keeps mistaking disaster for opportunity.
Curt Hollas comes back to Palm Springs for his father’s funeral and ends up getting sucked back into the family business: a luxury hospice facility that treats the dying like VIPs and bills them accordingly. His job? Move clients, keep them calm, avoid asking questions that make his uncle nervous, and stay the hell out of the way. Which is how Curt immediately lands in the middle of a dead billionaire, a blackmailing security guard, a traumatized bird, and a nurse who’s not great with boundaries. Curt’s trying to be responsible. It’s not going well.
Books by Tod Goldberg
Second Responder
From Tod Goldberg, the award-winning author of Gangsterland and Only Way Out, comes a feral crime story about a washed‑up golf hustler who keeps mistaking disaster for opportunity.
Reviews For Second Responder
There are echoes in this book of Carl Hiaasen, Elmore Leonard, Quentin Tarantino and Donald Westlake, but Mr. Goldberg is master of his own gonzo mix.
Tod Goldberg writes like a skilled knifeman—he knows how to slice and how to stab, how to bleed you out fast or bleed you out slow.
The most improbable and remarkable series of mob fiction ever written.
Goldberg’s talent and compassion extends dignity even to the most fucked-up and misbegotten lives.
A crime novel that further cements Goldberg’s reputation as an heir to Leonard or Hiaasen even as he broadens and amplifies his own endearingly sardonic vision of the West
