The Same Lie Twice

By Ron Goulart

A copywriter's wife has vanished, and only John Easy is slick enough to save her.

Jim Benning makes $25,000 a year writing drivel for the admen at the Arbogast & Joseph Agency, and his wife thinks he's worth a whole lot less. Joanna is a model: nervous, beautiful, and prone to meltdowns. In a last-ditch attempt to save their marriage, she agrees to a few sessions with a psychiatrist in San Ignacio -- a quack whose psychobabble is more sinister than it appears. But when Joanna disappears, Jim's only hope is John Easy, the hippest P.I. in Hollywood.

Jim gives John a matchbook found in his wife's purse for a club called Maybe -- a swinger's hideout where morality is not in style -- and John plunges into the seedy side of sunny San Ignacio, where the copywriter's wife led an entirely different sort of existence. To save Joanna from her shadow self, John Easy will have to swing harder than ever before.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Release date: Jun 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781784085063

Ron Goulart

Ron Goulart (1933-2022) was the author of several series and standalone novels across several genres, as well as nonfiction books on a variety of pop culture subjects, including pulp magazines and comic books. An Edgar Award nominee, a Nebula Award finalist, and an Inkpot Award-winner, his books include the TekWar series (with William Shatner), the Fragmented America books, the Marvel Novels Incredible Hulk: Stalker from the Stars and Captain America: Holocaust for Hire (as Joseph Silva, with Len Wein and Marv Wolfman), and the Mysteries Featuring Groucho Marx, including Groucho Marx, Master Detective, Groucho Marx and the Broadway Murders, and Elementary My Dear Groucho.