Rupee Millionaires
Book Details
Author(s)Frank Kusy
PublisherGrinning Bandit Books
ISBN / ASINB00FQ7A5WK
ISBN-13978B00FQ7A5W0
Sales Rank387,244
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Want to make a million? Be careful what you wish for...
“This book is a memoir that will make you laugh and cry and feel like you've made friends. You'll fall in love with India and even a little bit with London.†~ Jay Mittener, Top 500 reviewer
“Once started, begs to be read in one sitting. It is full of flavour, especially the scents and scintillations of India as we've never read about them before, and satisfies on every level. This is a story pleading to become a film! ~ Grady Harp, Top 50 Hall of Fame ‘Vine’ reviewer
“Mr Kusy is clearly capable of writing vivid and enticing portraits of India – his past as a travel writer shines through, and we see India as if we are there first hand.†~ Harper Collins
"A rip-roaring tale of dodgy dealings and hilarious happenings..." Mark Roman, author, The Ultimate Inferior Beings
Book Description:
From an early age, Frank Kusy, born into poverty from immigrant parents, learns to live on his wits––first as an unwitting money collector for Ronnie Kray, later as a Buddhist trader in London’s St Martin’s-in-the-Fields market. Then he meets up with thuggish ‘Spud’ who is so good at scaring people, notably the Petrovs, two encroaching Russian gangsters, that he hires him on the spot as his business partner.
It’s a deal with the Devil. Spud is a loose cannon, liable to blow up at any moment. The two travel to India to become the largest wholesaler of hippy-Hindi glad rags in the UK, and to fulfill their dream of becoming rupee millionaires.
Along the way, they pick up a motley crew of kooky characters––Ram, a lovable, crutch-bound Rajasthani, George, an irascible American, Nick and Anna, a quirky Canadian couple, Susie, a Dagenham girl gone ‘native’, and Rose, the secret love of Ram’s life. These become the ‘Pushkar Posse’, a group of oddball traveler-entrepreneurs who meet once a year to have fun and make money in equal measure.
Join Frank on this wild rite of passage through India.
STOP PRESS: Frank's much anticipated third memoir - 'Off the Beaten Track: My Crazy Year in Asia' - is now available on Amazon.
“This book is a memoir that will make you laugh and cry and feel like you've made friends. You'll fall in love with India and even a little bit with London.†~ Jay Mittener, Top 500 reviewer
“Once started, begs to be read in one sitting. It is full of flavour, especially the scents and scintillations of India as we've never read about them before, and satisfies on every level. This is a story pleading to become a film! ~ Grady Harp, Top 50 Hall of Fame ‘Vine’ reviewer
“Mr Kusy is clearly capable of writing vivid and enticing portraits of India – his past as a travel writer shines through, and we see India as if we are there first hand.†~ Harper Collins
"A rip-roaring tale of dodgy dealings and hilarious happenings..." Mark Roman, author, The Ultimate Inferior Beings
Book Description:
From an early age, Frank Kusy, born into poverty from immigrant parents, learns to live on his wits––first as an unwitting money collector for Ronnie Kray, later as a Buddhist trader in London’s St Martin’s-in-the-Fields market. Then he meets up with thuggish ‘Spud’ who is so good at scaring people, notably the Petrovs, two encroaching Russian gangsters, that he hires him on the spot as his business partner.
It’s a deal with the Devil. Spud is a loose cannon, liable to blow up at any moment. The two travel to India to become the largest wholesaler of hippy-Hindi glad rags in the UK, and to fulfill their dream of becoming rupee millionaires.
Along the way, they pick up a motley crew of kooky characters––Ram, a lovable, crutch-bound Rajasthani, George, an irascible American, Nick and Anna, a quirky Canadian couple, Susie, a Dagenham girl gone ‘native’, and Rose, the secret love of Ram’s life. These become the ‘Pushkar Posse’, a group of oddball traveler-entrepreneurs who meet once a year to have fun and make money in equal measure.
Join Frank on this wild rite of passage through India.
STOP PRESS: Frank's much anticipated third memoir - 'Off the Beaten Track: My Crazy Year in Asia' - is now available on Amazon.
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