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Jack Wakes Up by Seth Harwood
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(Jack Palms book 1)
What does a movie-star one-hit-wonder and ex-drug-addict do when he's cleaned up, down on his luck, and running out of money?
In the three years since Jack Palms went clean - no drugs, no drinking, no life - he's added fourteen pounds of muscle, read 83 books, and played it as straight as anyone can ask him. Now, when an old friend from L.A. calls, he signs on to help a set of Eastern Europeans score enough coke to settle down and set up shop. All Jack has to do is keep them entertained and get them through their purchase.
But when the plan runs into a few problems, and Jack starts getting phone calls from an old friend on the police force, he realizes that this business will take a lot more acting than he first assumed.
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Chapters
| Title | Description | Date Created |
| Episode 1 (11.19 MB) | Cable car breakfast with Ralph Anderino. Jack down on his luck. A deal to set them up for life. | Sep 6, 2006 |
| Episode 2 (19.33 MB) | The Czechs in their hotel. A bad suit. Cocaine and hard liquor. A test of will. | Sep 6, 2006 |
| Episode 3 (31.89 MB) | Taking the Czechs to The Coast. Maxine and Tony Vitelli. Jack gets a few promlematic phone messages. At Ralph's house, things get a whole lot more complicated. | Sep 6, 2006 |
| Episode 4 (19.7 MB) | Jack meets with Sgt. Hopkins in SF to find out what he knows, and has a hair-raising experience with the Czechs at their hotel. | Sep 6, 2006 |
| Episode 5 (24.78 MB) | The meet with the Columbian gets set. Jack and Maxine. Arm-wrestling a robot. Meeting the Columbian. | Sep 6, 2006 |
| Episode 6 (26.88 MB) | Meeting the Columbian's back-up. Head butt and broken nose. Back at The Coast. Maxine. | Sep 6, 2006 |
| Episode 7 (15.1 MB) | Maxine's apartment in the sunset and a head full of fog. | Sep 10, 2006 |
| Episode 8 (24.63 MB) | The Club Mirage. A big meet goes wrong. Shots fired and Al going crazy. Jack gets him out and finds Maxine, waiting. Touch of hands. | Sep 22, 2006 |
| Episode 9 (34.03 MB) | Jack and Max. Ralph from the grave. Sgt. Hopkins' Lonely Hearts Club Badge. Trust. What kind of name is Junius? Burning The Coast to the ground. | Sep 22, 2006 |
| Episode 10 (33.13 MB) | Jack goes to see Joe Buddha for advice, sits zazen. The Czechs make their visit to The Coast to burn it down. Talent scouting for Shake It Up. | Oct 2, 2006 |
| Episode 11 (30.36 MB) | Jack sets a new meet with Castroneves. Shot fired on Van Ness. Not the Fastback!! Chasing a shooter through downtown. Getaway. Vlade comes clean. | Oct 6, 2006 |
| Episode 12 (27.89 MB) | A drug deal. The one who sold them out. Happy Europeans. Off to meet The Man. | Oct 14, 2006 |
| Episode 13 (29.37 MB) | It's Junius Ponds! Freeman the Giant has a posse. Sushi in the bed. | Oct 20, 2006 |
| Episode 14 (27.17 MB) | It's all starting to come down now. Jack bluffs Junius Ponds, and Niki says "Bring it on!" | Oct 26, 2006 |
| Episode 15 (28.79 MB) | Things are heating up. Tony V. back on the scene and not happy with Alex Castroneves or Jack. Another hurried exit from The Mirage. Back in the hotel, the Czechs start packing. Long-awaited money. On the way to Maxine's... | Nov 10, 2006 |
| Episode 16 (27.71 MB) | Jack and Maxine get reunited. And it feels so good? Niki and Vlade get back in the game and Junius shows Jack his trunk. Next stop: The Coast. | Nov 18, 2006 |
| Episode 17 (19.5 MB) | Shootout at The Coast: Part One. | Nov 26, 2006 |
| Episode 18: The almost-finale (30.46 MB) | Shootout at the Coast: Part II | Dec 3, 2006 |
| Episode 19 (24.94 MB) | The End... for now | Dec 14, 2006 |
| Author Q and A (52.93 MB) | Here's the final installment: Storyglossia's Steve McDermott interviews writer Seth Harwood. | Dec 24, 2006 |