Bogus U.

When the classical scholar, Phineas Ort, Bogus U.'s first choice for president, disappears, the search committee, persuaded that its university, like most others, is a gangster operation, decides to recruit a hit man to keep the fractious faculty in line. Phineas has been abducted by the Robaccia gang, which is intent on installing its own candidate in the president s office to cash in on Bogus U.'s well-known corruption. Christy Mahon, a former member of the Robaccio gang, now on the lam for having crossed its boss, Brooklyn Benny, has landed a job at Bogus U. as a janitor. Listening through a heating vent, he overhears the search committee s deliberations and interviews for the job. How he wins it is deliciously funny. Other adventures include sexual hanky-panky among university officials, payoffs, academic fraud, and illegal deals between the U. and contractors. Is Christy up to all of these challenges?