Thomas Perry: Big Fish (USA 1986)

From the Publisher:
Big Fish follows dangerous and mysterious Los Angeles entrepreneur Altmeyer, and his wife Rachel whose quiet lives in the Hollywood hills are disrupted when a multi-million dollar gunrunning deal goes bad.

Under most circumstances, Altmeyer might be mildly amused by the audacity of the double-cross. But whoever cheated Altmeyer may also be planning to destroy the world. With so much at stake, Altmeyer and Rachel and their friend, super-agent to the stars Bucky Carmichael, set off on a perilous adventure in search of the identity of the Big Fish. What they find is shocking and horrifying and all too credible.

Thomas Perry: Big Fish. Warner Books, ISBN: 0446340251 (May, 1986), 246 p., $3.95.

Thomas Perry: Big Fish (USA 1985)

From the Publisher:
Altmeyer is an entrepreneur who lives with his beautiful wife Rachel on an estate high in the hills above Los Angeles. Life seems very good indeed, except that it might be nice to have a baby -- and maybe a few more goats. Rachel likes goats. They are clean and affectionate and pretty. She also likes Altmeyer, who is not exactly pretty.

Thin, with a tanned face and strange almond eyes, Altmeyer is a man whom few would claim to know well or to understand. Not even Rachel knows everything about her dangerous and mysterious husband.

Altmeyer is probably the last person on earth anybody would want to double cross. He's not the sort of person it pays to annoy. So it's surprising when Altmeyer's latest gunrunning deal goes bad. Somebody has stupidly betrayed Altmeyer and done him out of two million dollars. Perhaps even more important, it seems that whoever cheated Altmeyer may be planning to destroy at least part of the world.

Under most circumstances Altmeyer might be mildly amused by the audacity of it all. But not now--not with Rachel and his country and even the world in danger. Not to mention his goats and his koi pond.

Helped by their friend, superagent to the stars Budky Carmichael, Altmeyer and Rachel set off on a perilous adventure in search of the answer to the Big Fish. What they find is shocking and horrifying and all too credible.

Thomas Perry: Big Fish. A Novel. Scribner's, ISBN: 0684183676 (May, 1985), 248 p., $15.95.