num_pages: 384
description: A sinister prowl among the rich and sophisticated, the crude and the cruel, The Fat Man Can’t Swim is a frighteningly realistic portrayal of the intersecting worlds of international power and crime. It’s a dark, literate suspense story about money changing hands, from the almost innocent, to criminals so depraved they’d kill for a pack of cigarettes. Cops, diplomats, federal agents, high-class scoundrels, and assassins compete in a deadly game that traverses class and geography, from the ugliest side of a California drug town to the world’s labyrinthine bureaucracies and corridors of power. Blum approaches his characters with all the intimacy of a friend or colleague, someone who knows their worlds firsthand.
language: English
title: The Fat Man Can't Swim: A Novel of Intrigue and Mystery
titlecomplete: The Fat Man Can't Swim: A Novel of Intrigue and Mystery
publisher: Creative Arts Book Co