Dallas Worth, aka Stanley Bupkis, has become the second convict mistakenly released by the Nevada Department of Corrections for the year. Wishing to lay low before fleeing the state and in need of cash, he agrees to look into a matter for a woman involving the death of her husband. Before it's all over, he'll cross paths with an individual who will stop at nothing in his pursuit of fame — including turning Dallas into his next victim.
Carl Hiaasen has been quoted as stating that his stories are populated with slightly altered true tales from Florida since truth is indeed stranger than fiction. In that vein, Roadhouse Money is a 20,000-word narrative of several real-life events that were widely reported on during the wild, free-wheeling, anything goes ’90s decade in Sin City where the author once lived.
Inmates from Clark County were, and may still be, inadvertently released back into the world at large. The death of a popular sitcom actor didn’t appear to be anything other than suicide until an L.A. comedian friend made several disconcerting remarks on the evening news. Names and dates of this tale have been altered for obvious reasons.
Taking a hard look at current events, it’s oddly amusing how Las Vegas almost twenty years ago now seems like 'the good old days.' Maybe decadence is relative.
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