cover image The Fat Man Can't Swim

The Fat Man Can't Swim

Richard H. Blum. Creative Arts Book Company, $15.95 (384pp) ISBN 978-0-88739-309-9

Lee Barbour, an idealist with a gun who works for a government intelligence agency, travels from a drug-ridden California town to the palaces of Vienna and the secret service-laden Bulgaria in Richard H.A. Blum's The Fat Man Can't Swim. On her third day at her new job, Claire Dubois is sent off to Vienna to be Lee's partner, but when she's immediately kidnapped, Lee's investigation of corrupt politicians and businessmen, as well as career criminals, takes a life-or-death turn.