Princess Naughty and the Voodoo Cadillac
by Fred Willard
Category: Fiction

Bill Schiller, drummed out of the post-Cold War CIA, just needs a little scratch to ease him into retirement on some warm, remote island. He's already got his stool, filthy rich Atlantan Johnny McClendon, who would love nothing better than to prove himself a true patriot by "investing" six million dollars in the Foundation for Freedom in the Americas. All Schiller needs to do is arrange a couple of simple transfers and blow off a few minor players. But McClendon has a chauffeur, Ronnie Gordon, and Ronnie Gordon has an enemy, Peanut Shoke, whom Gordon ratted out and who subsequently spent several very unpleasant years in prison. More to the point, Peanut has a friend and partner in petty crime, Ray Justus, and if the two of them could somehow step on Ronnie Gordon and at the same time step between his boss and a pile of money, so much the better. But there's also Dunbarton Oakes, ineffectual director of the soon-to-be-defunct foundation, whose Ivy League veneer will crack when he realizes that Schiller has gone "off the reservation." And there's Plank, Schiller's demented lieutenant. And of course, there's Princess Naughty.