Auggie West
Created by Joe Lofgreen

Former safecracker turned Santa Barbara private eye AUGUST "AUGGIE" WEST is short, bald, and chubby, and not exactly burning with ambition.His partner, Jim Padova, wants to get into security consulting, seeing as the detective biz hasn't actually been setting the world on fire, but Auggie thinks that sounds too much like actual work.

So, in walks the wife of a local hotshot real estate developer, offering Auggie $5,000.00 to steal some jewelry from her husband's office safe.

Auggie's one appearance to date has been on the web, as a prominent part of Joe's Detective Pages, an excellent site, by the way. Right now, Joe's working on a more polished version of As Easy As Speed for possible print publication, and another, non-Augie book that will darker and more violent. But "there's more Auggie to come because I really like the character."

CYBER NOVEL

• As Easy As Speed (1997)
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