Stuff Dreams Are Made Of Don Bruns by Don Bruns 9781933515168, 1933515163 instant download after payment.

While their last venture was hardly crowned with success, James Lessor and Skip Moore, (and their white box truck) are back. When Reverend Preston Cashdollar and his traveling tent revival come to town, James and Skip reinvent themselves--as holy rollers. But these two 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. With a few 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. Cashdollar may preach about seeing the light, but his organization has a dark side of greed, corruption and murder. What in the name of all that is holy have James and Skip gotten themselves into? This meals-on-wheels venture is more like hell on wheels.As James and Skip seek the truth, they'll learn that the stuff dreams are made of may be their worst nightmare. They'll either need to keep the faith or run like the devil.

At the start of Bruns's talky second mystery to feature best friends Skip Moore and James Lessor (after 2007's Stuff to Die For), the pair decide to make a buck by serving food to the attendees of a tent revival at Oleta River Park near Miami, Fla., led by charismatic Rev. Preston Cashdollar. Once on the job, Skip and James realize certain people associated with Cashdollar have met untimely ends. Particularly disturbing are two unsolved murders—that of Cabrina Washington, an African-American teen rumored to have had an affair with the married minister, and that of Fred Long, a conservative U.S. senator from North Dakota who angered Cashdollar. After Barry Romans, a right-wing talk-show host critical of Cashdollar, is shot, Skip and James turn amateur sleuths. Likable protagonists compensate in part for the thin, improbable plot. (Sept.)
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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 (Stuff to Die For, 2007), 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. --Steve Glassman