A Rough Way to Go
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4.3 • 3 Ratings
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Publisher Description
In this "smart and clever" suspenseful story, a stay-at-home father with something to prove finds a wealthy Wall Street investor's body washed up on the shore—and decides to take the investigation into his own hands (Michael Connelly).
Peter Greene spends his days taking care of his toddler, staying on the right side of The Moms in his local beach town, and hanging out with his surf buddy, Frank. Isolated from his former life in finance and frustrated by his current “out of work” existence, he worries that if he sits around the house for much longer, his workaholic wife might start to lose patience with him. He has few escapes aside from surfing and the love he has for his son. When the body of wealthy Wall Street investor Robert Townsend washes up on shore one morning and is ruled as an accidental drowning, it makes no sense to Pete. But when he takes his concerns to the police, they ignore him—so he decides to investigate on his own.
Sustained only by the unquestioning devotion of his three-year-old sidekick, Pete starts looking into Townsend’s eccentric relatives and employer, the ruthless and secretive private equity firm GDR. But has Pete deluded himself with this misguided quest for redemption? Or has he uncovered something sinister enough to risk his life, and even his family?
A Rough Way to Go is a raw, irreverent story that plumbs the depths of masculinity, unemployment, fatherhood, marriage, and modern capitalism—and the struggle to live a purposeful life.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A financier turned surfer investigates the mysterious drowning of a hotshot investor, in Garonzik's cutting yet thin debut noir. Former New York City financial analyst Peter Greene has moved with his wife, Lauren, and three-year-old son, Luke, to a sleepy beach town a few hours outside the city, where he regularly delays his search for employment by catching waves with his buddy, Frank. One day, the body of Robert Townsend, who made a name for himself at the shady Manhattan private equity firm GDR, washes ashore on the beach Peter and Frank frequent. The police rule it an accidental drowning, but Peter's not so sure. Sensing that his financial connections might qualify him to find answers about Robert's death—and that doing so could provide his life with some much needed direction—Peter sets out to uncover Robert's many secrets. Though Peter's voice is well-developed, Garonzik stumbles when drawing the supporting players: Peter's tense relationship with the nameless mothers at Luke's nursery school is clunkily satirical, and Lauren and Frank feel mostly like two-dimensional foils. A late-stage plot turn surfaces some interesting ideas about contemporary fatherhood, but by the time it arrives, the book's waters have been too choppy for too long. In the end, this doesn't live up to its aspirations.
Customer Reviews
loved it
it’s a page turning, often dark and suspenseful thriller told through the eyes of a hilariously relatable young father. if you’re a forty-something dad with young children and you’ve ever worked on or peripherally near wall street, you are going to love this book. if you are none of those things my guess is you will still love it