Wayne is invisible. At least that's how the regular citizens of Babcock Grove act when they pass him on the street. He isn't unemployed. He has a job for every day of the month. They just don't add up to one real paycheck. He isn't homeless; there are seven different places he can bed down for the night. Just none he can call his own. Wayne is always making plans that come up just short. Maybe it's his criminal record, maybe it's the result of ancient geological forces, but he can't catch a break. But Wayne has a New Plan to end his years on the streets. He's found the perfect house to move into. Except for one thing: the owner's corpse inside. Now he's become all too visible. The cops need a convenient suspect, and the killer is coming back to tie up loose ends. Wayne has to use all his street smarts to solve the mystery, and to finally find a place he can call home.
About the Author: It was the 1990's and the Internet was erupting like a two-liter bottle of diet cola full of Mentos. Everybody was inventing new electronic devices to go with it, but nobody knew how to keep them from overheating. That's when Tony Kordyban made up a story about some engineers wiring together psychic human brains to build a new communications network. It became the hilariaous framework for teaching heat transfer to the techies laying the foundations of the Internet. That was published as "Hot Air Rises and Heat Sinks: Everything You Know About Cooling Electronics Is Wrong" in 1998. That book became an instant classic, finding a home in libraries from Beijing to Los Alamos. Tony's storytelling was influenced by his days on the streets of Detroit, and his nights immersed in "The Twilight Zone," "Green Acres," "Lost in Space," and the works of H. G. and Orson Wells. He learned cooling of electronics in his stints at Stanford and Bell Labs, while honing his creative chops drawing comics and writing short stories. "Hot Air Rises" was quickly followed by a sequel, "More Hot Air," and recently by his first novel, "The Loose Meat Sandwich King of Hamtramck." His newest book is a crime story set in the hidden world of the suburban homeless. Tony lives in the Chicago area with his wife and daughter, and continues to write, teach and engineer electronics.