A Better Goodbye: A Novel
About this audiobook
A retired masseuse and a retired boxer take jobs working for an actor, and love and jealousy soon follow.
Nick Pafko knows he can’t be a professional boxer forever. But he never guessed it would end so quickly—and so wrong. Broke and unemployed, Nick has little choice but to call a number given to him by a friend. On the other end is Scott, a washed-up B-movie actor who runs a so-called massage parlor looking for somebody desperate enough to work security.
Jenny Yee doesn’t really mind massage, until the day she finds her coworkers robbed and assaulted. Fearing for her safety, she resolves to never work without security again. With mounting expenses, she knows massage is the fastest way to get paid. When an old massage acquaintance calls Jenny to ask her to work for Scott, she agrees—and before long, she’s the top earner.
Scott is an arrogant moron, but he’s harmless compared to the thug he calls “friend”—Onus DuPree. When DuPree decides to rob Scott’s massage joint, it’s the perfect opportunity to beat up Nick and take advantage of Jenny. Can Nick stay true to his promise to protect Jenny? Can he protect himself?
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About the author
John Schulian is a former Chicago Sun-Times sports columnist, a longtime contributor to GQ and Sports Illustrated, and a cocreator of TV’s Xena: Warrior Princess. His short fiction has appeared in the Prague Revue and on the website ThugLit. A Better Goodbye is his first novel.
Keith Szarabajka has appeared in many films, including The Dark Knight, Missing, and A Perfect World, and on such television shows as The Equalizer, Angel, Cold Case, Golden Years, and Profit. Szarabajka has also appeared in several episodes of Selected Shorts for National Public Radio. He won the 2001 Audie Award for Unabridged Fiction for his reading of Tom Robbins’s Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates and has won several Earphones Awards.
