In God’s Money, the reader steps onto a very alluring, dangerous roller coaster with known and unexpected markers whizzing by in every sentence. The plots -- money, a lot of it, a good priest, a bad bishop, great sea stuff with high tech crackling all about, a boy mystic and an ancient Japanese mystic with a sword, all nice and tidy in a mere 124 pages, every word of which floats a luminescent picture of how a just-retired guy from A.I.G. returns to his long ago Peace Corps redoubt.
A quick, magnificent must-read.
Jeremiah Revving
Dartmouth, Massachusetts
With God’s Money, once again Hutton deftly weaves a complex story within an entertaining read. You will be holding your breath—when you’re not laughing out loud—at the plot’s twists and turns.
Kate Christmas
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Tad Hutton does it again! The author who made us whoop and wonder at Eddie Dowd has put an eclectic cast of characters together in a tale that will make you laugh, catch your breath, and heartily applaud.
Valeri Keogh
John Muir Elementary
Fresno, CA
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Had to read God’s Money based solely on the title! After reading it was in the vein of Waking Ned Devine, one of my all-time favorite movies, I had to read it NOW! It’s a story that captures the imagination and leaves you wanting to know what will happen when the bad guys eventually hear about the book, or better yet, see the movie. Tad Hutton’s style reminds me of another witty author…Nelson DeMille.
Nancy Flynn
Philadephia, Pa
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God's Money is a feel-good jigsaw that awakens the adventurer within us all. Arigato!
Marta Yamamoto
Berkeley, CA
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For release: On receipt
Date: August 16, 2009
Savannah, GA
Local author and GAYA Award finalist Tad Hutton's latest novel, God's Money, is currently under contract with three-time Emmy nominee Rick Pagano for a movie script. Producer Stratton Leopold, a Savannah native and entrepreneur, put Hutton in contact with the California writer and director, who has since become "passionately excited" about working on the project.
"The amazing thing," said Hutton, "is that the book is still undergoing final editing for publication. I don't expect it out on the book market for another month. Stratton deserves great credit for arranging Rick's manuscript review."
The novel tracks twenty million dollars of drug money uncovered by four fishermen on an uninhabited island. "It's based upon actual events," said Hutton, "so recent that I had to change the site and parts of the story line. There are bad guys out there, still looking for their money."
Pagano thinks he will have a decent draft of the movie script out by November. He is presently unavailable for interviews as he wants to concentrate on the script's development.
"It is such a pleasure working with a man of Rick's stature and talent," Hutton commented. "He says he loves this type of challenge – playing in his sandbox with themes, characters, and dialogue. Anyone who has read his plays or scripts, or is familiar with his casting work on projects like Hotel Rwanda, X-Men, or Auggie Rose knows his reputation is deserved."
Hutton's previously successful novel is Rio Savannah, set in Savannah, Tybee Island, and Rio de Janeiro. Last year he came out with Time Pool, The Amazing Adventures of Eddie Dowd. Time Pool is the first book in a trilogy of a boy's experiences on an ocean island.
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God's Money, written by Tad Hutton, a 2009 GAYA Award finalist, is based on a true story, so recent that the ending is still in play.
In 2007, a ship in the Palawan Straits of the South China Sea goes missing. The Straits are notorious for acts of piracy, directed at the more than fifteen per cent of the world's ship traffic.
Two years after the disappearance and suspected hijacking of the freighter Pa'ua, millions of dollars are uncovered on an atoll by fisherman from Kalayaan Town on the island of Ramos in the Philippines.
The money turns out to be part of a laundering operation by a Manila drug cartel. The cartel comes looking for its money as well as for the pirate named Ahmad the Knife who attempted to hijack its ship. The Catholic Church becomes part of the story when a greedy monsignor named Monsignor Barracuda by the townsfolk asserts his rights to the money. To further complicate the plot, five nations who claim sovereignty over the island suddenly become interested in claiming the cash.
Meshed into this net of greed and intrigue are simple villagers, a timid but holy priest, and a renegade American hiding from a US Treasury investigation. A romantic tension evolves to a triangle among a beautiful Filipina, a naval officer, and the much older American. Other sharply defined characters are an autistic orphan who communicates with dolphins, an ex-soldier from Japan who lives as a hermit above the village, the avaricious monsignor who wants the money, and a Malay pirate who terrorizes all who stand between him and his treasure.
God's Money is chock full of action, comedy, fear, and a final, gripping redemption. Anyone who saw and enjoyed the 1989 classic action-comedy The Gods Must Be Crazy would place this novel right on the same level. The book and its characters will be remembered long after the last page is turned.
ForemostPress.com
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"A 'can't-put-down' story with a colorful cast of characters."
--- ForemostPress.com
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