Fletch's Fortune

Name: Fletch's Fortune
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: Gregory Mcdonald
ISBN: 9781538524558

Author: Gregory Mcdonald

Series: Fletch Mysteries #1

Narrator: Dan John Miller

Unabridged: 5 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 09/04/2018

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Amateur Sleuth, Humorous

Synopsis

Fletch, as unbridled as ever and still living the good life in Italy on his ill-gotten fortune, gets a surprising visit from two surly FBI agents. The pair offers him a deal: either he attend the American Journalism Alliance convention and work as an undercover spy for them, or be shipped back to headquarters and face jail time for tax evasion.Reluctantly agreeing to the scheme, he catches a red-eye flight back to the States. But just as rubber hits tarmac in Virginia, news breaks on a murder at the convention. The victim—a newspaper tycoon and former employer of I. M. Fletch—was no stranger to enemies. And at a hotel full of reporters who’d all had their dealings with the tyrannical leader, everyone’s a suspect.

About Gregory Mcdonald

Gregory Mcdonald (1937–2008) insisted that he was educated while earning his way through Harvard by creating and running an international yacht troubleshooting business. A former Boston Globe reporter, he won two Edgar Allan Poe Awards for his writing as well as numerous awards for humanitarian work.

About Dan John Miller

Dan John Miller is an American actor and musician. In the Oscar-winning Walk the Line, he starred as Johnny Cash’s guitarist and best friend, Luther Perkins, and has also appeared in George Clooney’s Leatherheads and My One and Only, with Renée Zellweger. An award-winning audiobook narrator, he has garnered multiple Audie Award nominations, has twice been named a Best Voice by AudioFile magazine, and has received several AudioFile Earphones Awards and a Listen-Up Award from Publishers Weekly.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kemper on November 24, 2022

Fletch gets blackmailed by the government to secretly bug and record journalists at a conference, but when an asshole media mogul gets murdered, Fletch ends up investigating that too. This is OK, but a little too cute for it's own good. Plus, it's really hard to believe that a supposedly smart guy l......more

Goodreads review by Cathy on August 18, 2013

All of us at one time or another have gone through the stress of a broken modem, router, computer tower, laptop and/or a million other things that can occur to prevent access to the internet. Internet access has become in some respects, imperative for many of us. So when lightening hit and destroyed......more

Goodreads review by Shawn on July 26, 2021

I love this character. The books are always so witty and charming. And in between there is a solid mystery solved.......more

Goodreads review by Michael on March 21, 2022

Another great Fletch mystery. This time, Fletch is being blackmailed by the CIA to spy on his journalistic colleagues at a convention. But not all is at it appears to be and the final conclusion includes a host of surprising plot twists. One of the recurring patterns of the series is both the brilli......more

Goodreads review by Ben on January 10, 2023

This is my fourth Fletch book, which I’ve grabbed as like a palate cleanser or when I’m not sure what I want to read next. This one wasn’t as good as the other three I’ve read but I do like the character a lot. I think there are like 10 in the series and I’m not in any rush to get there, but I think......more

Quotes

“It is books like this—light, fast, and funny—that gave paperbacks their good name, which is no revelation to fans of the earlier Fletch novels.” People

“Bright and entertaining…Fletch, as irreverent and smart as ever, is back.” New York Times Book Review

“Good old-fashioned page-turning fun, a flair that has been absent from novels of this sort since the days of vintage James Bond.” Penthouse

“Mcdonald had marvelously seductive fun in puncturing the posturing and pretensions of some media types. Part of the delight in reading the book is to match the characters to bylines or TV faces—a ruthless, back-stabbing press tycoon (approximately stabbed in the back by scissors at a journalism convention), a syndicated columnist who writes snide accusations under the guise of investigative reporting, a tough, earthy woman reporter, a cigar-chewing humorist, a network pontificator who speaks only in polysyllabic words, a television interviewer who has clawed her way to the top.” Washington Post

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