Introducing the Richest Family in America

By David Drum
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Published: Oct. 29, 2010
Words: 85,954 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9780984564620

Short description

A conspiracy is underway in one of California's richest and most eccentric families. A beautiful Chinese pro golfer, a crooked lawyer, and a plastic surgeon madly scheme to offshore an old billionaire's factories to China. But the black sheep of the family, an interior decorator who suffers from panic attacks, gets wind of this, gathers all the support he can, and fights like a mad dog to stop it

Extended description

High in the hills above fashionable Montecito, California, slipping in and out of their mansions on Swizzle Stick Road, a ridiculously wealthy family is under siege. A crooked lawyer, a beautiful Chinese pro golfer, and a celebrity-mad plastic surgeon are conspiring to convince the wealthy family’s clueless old patriarch to move his factories from Cleveland to China.

As the conspiracy clicks into place, the flirtatious pro golfer romances the old billionaire across Europe. But their half-baked romp from Paris to Shanghai catches the attention of the black sheep of the family, and he doesn’t like it. The interior decorator and former alcoholic, who is also subject to panic attacks, bravely sashays into action. Anxiously warding off attacks from his eccentric older sisters, the family’s youngest son sets out for Cleveland to organize factory workers while the family’s unscrupulous son-in-laws throw everything they have at him.

What follows is a brutally funny comedy of.. (Read more) High in the hills above fashionable Montecito, California, slipping in and out of their mansions on Swizzle Stick Road, a ridiculously wealthy family is under siege. A crooked lawyer, a beautiful Chinese pro golfer, and a celebrity-mad plastic surgeon are conspiring to convince the wealthy family’s clueless old patriarch to move his factories from Cleveland to China.

As the conspiracy clicks into place, the flirtatious pro golfer romances the old billionaire across Europe. But their half-baked romp from Paris to Shanghai catches the attention of the black sheep of the family, and he doesn’t like it. The interior decorator and former alcoholic, who is also subject to panic attacks, bravely sashays into action. Anxiously warding off attacks from his eccentric older sisters, the family’s youngest son sets out for Cleveland to organize factory workers while the family’s unscrupulous son-in-laws throw everything they have at him.

What follows is a brutally funny comedy of grandiose intentions, half-baked revenge, heroic upper crust foolishness, and hotly passionate cross-cultural romance. Introducing the Richest Family in America runs a hilarious gauntlet of greed, betrayal and desire as America’s richest family teeters precariously on the edge of dissolution and struggles to right itself again.

Some reviewer comments:

“I loved your daffy characters, they were totally refreshing. Gave me some of the best laughs I had all winter.”
--Deb Fowler, Amazon Top 100 Reviewer

“Glamorous locales and timely subject matter… engaging and fun. I found it hard to put down.”
--Kavita Daswani, author of The Village Bride of Beverly Hills

“I do like to read books every now and then that sound like Benny Hill is dashing thorough the pages ahead of me and this one fit the bill perfectly...."
--Feathered Quill Reviews

“Introducing the Richest Family in America is a riveting read and a solidly recommended one.”
--Midwest Book Review
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romance, humor, satire, new fiction, payback, farce, funny books, california fiction, political humor, offshoring, rich people, gay heroes, potbellied pigs, chinese women, labor unions, crooked lawyers, funny rich people, occupy the rich, funny plastic surgeons, the 1 percent

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Review by: Ken Luber on Dec. 31, 2011 : (no rating)
It takes only a few opening pages to realize that David Drum has a firm writing grip on the manic humor of Monty Python mixed with the whimsy of Peter Sellers to create a rollicking host of loony characters in a novel that tackles one of the hot topics of the day, the outsourcing of America. I loved the story's sense of place, from wintry Cleveland factories, the Nepal mountains, Shanghai streets to exotic West Coast mansions. The characters passionately hang on as the author sends them through hoops of intrigue, greed, patriotism and comeuppance. This is a very funny novel. Ken Luber, Idyllwild, CA.
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