Felony Juggler: A Novel [Hardcover]

Penn Jillettes tremendous new novel is about juggling. Not just literal jugglingthough it is the great American juggling novelbut on every metaphoric level too: moral, sexual, biographical, linguistic.? If you think street performing isn't fun and bank robbery is fun or that you know how the Rolling Stones make money, you've got a lot to learn. And it's all in Penn Jillette's can't-put-it-down page-turner? Penn writes a crime thriller the way he writes a magic trick: he tells you the secret while he fools the hell out of you.? This is a brilliant novel, spiked with autobiographical elements . . . Jillette is a nimble writer, taking delight in playing with the language and speaking directly to the reader when it suits him, pulling us into Poes story and refusing to let us go. Readers familiar with Jillette only through his numerous appearances on television and in film, as well as those seeking unusual variations on the caper trope, will be surprised and captivated. Jillette follows up? A very funny, oft-vulgar cautionary tale that doesnt pull any punches . . . A fast-talking, ball-juggling tall tale about long shots, escape attempts, and other bad decisions. Jillettes latest novel, Penn Jillette is an atheist, triple-goddamned lunatic, and his book is a glorious Las Vegas lunatic paean to chance and adventurea page-turning, scabrous, hilarious ride into randomness. Jillette ( Penn Jillette is half of Penn & Teller, the longest-running magic show in Las Vegas. This is his crime-fiction debut, and he has put together a wild story set in Sin City that is sinfully diverting . . . [A] crackerjack caper. Jillette is one of our weirder national treasures. [His] unironic hero is Bobby Ingersoll, a nobody who makes his living driving strip club ads up and down the Strip . . . After accidentally ripping off some gangbangers during a botched robbery, Bobby drops it all on a roll of the dice and suddenly finds himself a multimillionaire with an epiphany: The Dicl��