Book Review: Sleep With the Fishes

Reviewed By: Carl Brookins - RAM

Sleep With the Fishes     Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Brian M. Wiprud
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Mafia   Humorous
Xlibris, 2000; 178pp

Wicked humor works in this well-written, rapid-paced tongue in cheek novel. The premise is simple, if a little bizarre. Mob informer Sid Bifulco goes to prison where he becomes interested in fishing. With the help and later connivance of the warden, Bifulco becomes somewhat skilled, at least in the theory of fly fishing.

When he is released although he doesn’t go into the Witness Protection program, he is relocated to a small community in the Delaware Valley. It just so happens that the particular town where Sid decides to hang his creel is a Mecca for fisherfolk. It is also a town people with more than its share of eccentrics.

Of course, the mob sends assassins after Sid. Inadvertently he is protected by the local citizens, in part at least because they have their own illegal scams going, and he discovers that you can’t learn fishing entirely from books and magazines and by practice casting in the prison yard.

Sleep With Fishes is a very funny book. It made me laugh a lot. It’s also fast paced, well-written and takes a fresh look at almost every cliché ever devised in the organized crime fiction genre

Carl Brookins - RAM

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