Fly Unzipped: A Fly Moscone Mystery

"Hilarious and dead serious" is how one reviewer describes FLY UNZIPPED. Volunteer deputy sheriff Paul "Fly" Moscone just wants relief from an aching back, but when he's offered much more at a local massage parlor, he can't look the other way. Fly is compelled to attempt the rescue of the masseuse, a Cincinnati high school girl who's been kidnapped and sold into sex slavery. This Florida mystery ricochets between Fly's efforts to identify and capture the pimp who's running a major sex trafficking operation, crazy politics, environmental chicanery, and criminal destruction of a lawyer's collection of designer high heel shoes. Along the way, Fly and his buddy Mr. Jinx prove that retirement can be a lot more meaningful than just fishing and golfing while they're still trying to figure out what their wives really want. Readers will careen between laugh out loud moments and reaching for tissues as Fly goes undercover to get the job done. If you enjoy Carl Hiaasen, relate to Travis McGee, or appreciate the dramedy of M*A*S*H, Fly Unzipped is your kind of book.

Mike Hirsh is a lifelong journalist who has won the Peabody Award, a Writers Guild Award, and multiple Emmys for documentaries, investigative reports, and specials produced for PBS, CBS, ABC and HBO. In 2010 he was honored with the Vietnam Veterans of America Excellence in the Arts Award. Among his TV productions were several about young people, including ＂Guess Who’s Pregnant?,＂ ＂College Can Be Killing,＂ and a five program series on the prevention of child sexual abuse. With this background, the fact that he wrote a novel dealing with sex trafficking of minor American girls is not surprising. Hirsh also produced several documentaries about television, including ＂Making M*A*S*H,＂ ＂Memories of M*A*S*H,＂ ＂Great Television Moments--The Museum of TV & Radio Special,＂ ＂Inside Family Ties,＂ and ＂Caesar’s Writers,＂ the uproariously funny reunion of Sid Caesar with Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, and Larry Gelbart, et al. (available on DVD). He’s written seven non-fiction books including THE LIBERATORS--America’s Witnesses to the Holocaust, NONE BRAVER--US Air Force Pararescuemen in the War on Terror, and with Michael Schiavo wrote the New York Times best seller TERRI--THE TRUTH. FLY UNZIPPED is the second Fly Moscone Mystery; the first was FLY ON THE WALL. Hirsh lives in Punta Gorda, Florida, with Karen, his wife of 46 years.