Chapter 27
SUZANNE PAINTS AN EXQUISITE picture of how a Russian ex-patriot
by the name of Alexander Stalin, a supposed lost great grandson of Uncle Joe
Stalin, sent her an idea for a “true crime” manuscript about living with the
Russian Mob. He wanted to call it Russian Reign of Death or something
intensely clever like that. While Suzanne thought the idea had potential, it
would need the hand of a professional ghostwriter. That in mind, she wasn’t so
sure she wanted to take the project on. Therefore she set the manuscript idea
and Alex’s contact information in the “maybe” pile. That’s when the s**t hit
the fan over the manuscript title she borrowed from Ian Brando and she was run
out of town like a recurrence of the plague.
Some months later, after she settled with Brando out of
