EQUAL PARTS INSPIRATIONAL RAGS TO RICHES STORY ANDENLIGHTENING NARRATIVE ON CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY Raised by a single mother in affluent Fairfield County, Connecticut, Dylan Tomassi grew up poor. As a boy he is befriended by a reclusive widow he meets on his paper route. She mentors him with sage advice on matters facing a young man growing up without a father. She never pays for her newspapers, and he never asks for the money because of all the good advice she dispenses. When she finally does square up, it changes his life forever. Dylan relocates to Florida and becomes a successful private investor, but people and events affecting his exciting new lifestyle on the Sunshine State's west coast cause him to realize, with the help of his old friend, that many things going on in the world simply don't make sense. He vows to use his wealth to make a difference in the world when he's not sidetracked running into nefarious characters or busy keeping his best friend, wealthy playboy Alex Malloy, out of hot water. With corruption, debauchery, deception, and murder swirling around him, Dylan proves nice guys can finish first. Paperboy is the first book in a series of Dylan Tomassi novels.