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Callahan's Con

By: Spider Robinson
Narrated by: Barret Whitener
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About this listen

 In the discreet little Key West bar that Jake Stonebender established, Fast Eddie Costigan learned to curse back at parrots as he played the house piano; the Reverend Tom Hauptman learned to tend bar bare-chested, and Long-Drink McGonnigle discovered the margarita. Nobody even noticed them save the universe.

After 10 quiet years, their laid-back existence is disturbed by a malevolent, moronic Mafioso, named Tony Donuts, Jr., intending to resurrect the classic protection racket in Key West. Jake's scientifically precocious 13-year-old daughter is threatened by the truancy officer and then, thanks to very poor accessorizing, Jake's wife, Zoey, suddenly finds herself in a place with no light, no heat, and no air. And no way home. The urgent question was where, precisely where, but that turned out to be a problem so complex that even the entire gang, equipped with teleportation, time travel, and telepathic syntony, might not be able to crack it in time.

©2003 Spider Robinson (P)2004 Blackstone Audiobooks Adventure Fantasy Fiction Science Fiction

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Critic reviews

"The wordplay flies fast and funny as always in a Callahan's romp, and the characters, regular and new, are pretty darn amusing." (Booklist)
"Robinson knows how to generate tension without losing his sense of humor, a more difficult trick than you might imagine." (The New York Times)
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If you haven’t listened or read any of the other books in the Callahan chronicle please go back and start there. Spider Robinson has such an Amazing way with words and building characters that it’s worth enjoying his writing from the start. I loved the books which left my life with an ex boyfriend, so pleased to have found some of them again now

A long lost friend

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