Download or read book Paradise Man written by Jerome Charyn and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA stylish killer makes the mistake of befriending a god/divDIV Though he doesn’t know mink from sable, Sidney Holden is the most important employee at Aladdin Furs. He is a bumper, a well-dressed killer who collects the debts that cannot be paid, and Aladdin would be nothing without him. After all, fur is murder./divDIV /divDIVAs Cuban refugees flood the United States, the New York criminal class is rocked by the appearance of a Santería sect that hails a young girl as the newest incarnation of Changó, their bloodthirsty thunder god. But after a routine hit, Holden finds the girl cowering under the kitchen table—a divine witness to a double murder. Unable to kill her, he takes her with him, sparking an all-out turf war so vicious that Holden will be happy to have any god on his side. /div