The League of the Less Lucky

About the Book

P.J. Linenette is a Manhattan accountant. The disabled son of his building superintendent vanishes and P.J. is asked to hunt him down. P.J. then notices the abrupt disappearance of all the disabled people he's been seeing around town for years. Where are they? P.J. finds out when he gets off at the wrong floor of a factory and stumbles into a conspiracy of cripples led by the Bundle, a quadriplegic with an outrageous mission. The cripples refuse to let P.J. leave. In a strangely cozy imprisonment filled with macaroni dinners and dire threats, he learns some profound lessons about the disabled and himself.

About the Author

Lee Meagher worked in New York publishing for seven years. As she sat at home one evening editing a young man’s first novel already under contract to a large publisher, she kept muttering to herself, “Oh, I can do better than this - I can do better than this…” Finally her husband, the novelist Joseph William Meagher, doubtless tiring of the moaning and muttering, looked up and said, “Well, Lee, I guess we’ll never know what you can do unless you try.” That must have been the right push. The result is this wonderfully entertaining novel that takes no prisoners.