Who hasn’t imagined finding a million dollars?

Joey Coyle was down and out — the affable, boyish South Philadelphian hadn’t found dock work in months, he was living with his ailing mother, and he was fighting a medication habit and what seemed like a lifetime of bouncing into and out of bad luck. One morning, while cruising the roads just blocks from his house, fate took a turn worth Hollywood when he discovered a curious yellow tub he believed might make a good toolbox. It contained $1.2 about Finders Keepers: THE STORYPLOT of a Man who found $1 Mil million in unmarked bills — gambling house money that had just fallen off the back of an armored truck.

Detective Pat Laurenzi, with the help of the FBI, was working around the clock to monitor it down, Joey Coyle, in the mean time, was off on the bungling, swashbuckling misadventure, writing his windfall with everyone from his girlfriend to total strangers to the two neighborhood kids who drove him past it. To hide the money, Joey turned to the local mob bos — a shadowy, fearsome man who may or may not have helped launder it. But as adrenaline-filled nights started taking their toll, Joey Coyle’s dream-come-true progressed into a headache: Whom could he trust?

By among our most evocative and flexible chroniclers of American existence, Finders Keepers isn’t only a gripping accurate life thriller, it’s the extraordinary tale of an ordinary man faced with an extraordinary dilemma, and the fascinating reactions — from complicity to concern to betrayal — from the friends, family, and neighbours to whom he becomes.