Download or read book Take Five written by D. Keith Mano and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Con-man, filmmaker (currently working on producing Jesus 2001, what he calls the religious equivalent of The Godfather), descendent of a wealthy and prestigious New York family whose wealth and prestige are in sharp decline, racist and anti-Semite (though Simon dislikes all ethnic groups equally), possessor of never-satisfied appetites (food, women, drink, but most of all, money and more money), and the fastest talker since Falstaff, Simon is on a quest that goes backwards.