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The Phoenix Lottery
by Allan Stratton
Junior Beamish has inherited his father’s
private corporation, BEI. Determined to repay society for the shady
deals that built his family’s fortune, he uses his corporate profits
to finance ambitious philanthropies. His company soon teeters into bankruptcy.
Desperate for cash, he creates The Phoenix Lottery, which offers its
winner the twin cults of Instant Celebrity and Wealth. Celebrity by
publicly taking a blowtorch to his prized van Gogh Self-Portrait in
an event beamed live to the Internet and stadium Jumbotrons around the
world. Wealth by selling the story to TV, tabloids and Hollywood.
Fighting Junior’s scheme is the ghost
of Beamish Senior, carrying on their father/son battle from beyond the
grave, and Cardinal Giuseppe Wichita, the illegitimate son of an Italian
peasant girl and an American GI, sent by the Vatican on a mission to
defend the interests of Western civilization. At Junior’s side is
lottery winner Lydia Spark, a former runaway turned performance artist,
and Emily Pristable, Junior’s mild-mannered Baptist secretary. Neither
friend nor foe, however, is prepared for the arrival of van Gogh himself.
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