"The Gods of Greenwich"

Norb Vonnegut is a professional wealth adviser turned novelist. Top Producer, his debut novel, was a featured pick of Today, SmartMoney and is published in eight languages.

He applied the Page 69 Test to his new novel, The Gods of Greenwich, and reported the following:

On page 69 of The Gods of Greenwich, Rachel Whittier is whacking a 72-year-old woman. Rachel is a constant, lurking menace throughout the novel. This hit is her second in the book. And there are more septuagenarians, who will fall victim.

Page 69: “Rachel loved this part of her job. She felt like an alley cat toying with a trapped mouse.”

By day, Rachel works as a nurse in a plastic surgeon’s office. By night, she is a hired assassin. And the questions are:

Why is she killing seventy-year-olds?

How is she involved in the war between a hedge fund in Greenwich and a really nasty bank in Iceland?

What made her so evil in the first place?

Rachel eschews guns. Her aversion could be a problem in the murder-for-hire profession, right? Not so. She is extremely effective, skilled at her trade. Thriller fans won’t believe the hit on page fifteen.

Once again, the page sixty-nine test works. I think it nails what readers will find inside The Gods of Greenwich.

Learn more about the book and author at Norb Vonnegut's website and blog.

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--Marshal Zeringue