In this modern-day tale of madcap Manhattan by bestselling authors Larry King and Thomas H. Cook, a flurry of desperate guys and doll reach of their big chance: Arthur Vandameer is the left-wing media pundit and Allison is his beautiful, scheming teenaged daughter. Charlie Moon is the right-wing newspaper columnist, Roy Bumble is a con man without a con, and Harry Stumbo wishes Times Square could be unsafe again. Add to these a kid named goonie, a Bumble named Bea, and a huge peanut, and the result is a comic salute to the wacky vibrancy of New York City.

LARRY KING, the world-renowned host of CNN's Larry King Live, was born in Brooklyn. In 2002 he celebrated his 45th year in broadcasting. He is the author of the national bestseller Love Stories of World War II and the upcoming It All Started in Brooklyn.