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Stuff Dreams are Made Of
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Stuff Dreams Are Made Of James Lessor, Skip Moore and their white box truck are back. And when Reverend Preston Cashdollar and his traveling tent revival come to town, James and Skip reinvent themselves—as Holy Rollers.

Rest assured: James and Skip aren't seeking salvation; they're seeking the Almighty Dollar. After all, Cashdollar's prosperity gospel draws thousands of people with open minds—and open wallets. After some minor modifications to the truck, Less or Moore Catering is ready to roll, and the entrepreneurs are born again, intent on making a mint by selling meager meals to the hungry masses.

As James and Skip become entrenched in the Cashdollar culture, they start to realize that this good reverend is nothing but bad news. Cashdollar may preach about seeing the light, but his organization has a dark side of greed, power, curruption and murder.

When James and Skip see something they shouldn't, their meals-on-wheels venture is about to become hell on wheels. The love of money may be the root of all evil, but the stuff dreams are made of could be James and Skip's worst nightmare. As James and Skip seek the truth, they'll either need to keep the faith or run like the devil!

The follow up to Bruns's award winning STUFF TO DIE FOR, winner of Forewards Magazine best Mystery/Thriller 2007.

Available in hardcover from Oceanview Publishing.

 

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"Skip and James are proud graduates of Sam and Dave University. To no one's surprise but their own, they end up with dead-end jobs as a cook and a seller of security systems. In order to pay off their huge student-loan debt, they convert James' pride and joy, a cube truck he bought with a $12,000 windfall, into a lunch wagon. In their last adventure, they had hoped to strike it rich in the hauling business, but ultimately they were happy to escape with their lives from a gang of Cuban outlaws in Miami's Little Havana. This time their attempt to sell burgers at Reverend Cashdollar's revival at a park fronting the Intracoastal Highway costs them thousands in after-hours poker games and burglaries from their peers, the motliest bunch of carnies to appear in a narrative since the 1930s movie Freaks. A murderer is lurking in the group, and James smokes out the bad guy by drinking him under the table. Bruns maintains a narrative tone that would have done Huck Finn proud in this combination Andy Hardy adventure and hard-boiled thriller."
   —Booklist

"Don Bruns's STUFF DREAMS ARE MADE OF is a delightfully sinful sequel to his award-winning STUFF TO DIE FOR."
   —Deadly Pleasures

"Another excellent book by Don Bruns. His prose is crisp as ever, the plot is gripping. Once you start reading this one, you won't put it down."
   —Andrew F. Gulli, editor of The Strand Magazine


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