Great crime fiction seems to emanate from every culture and nation on the planet. While we currently celebrate the great Scandinavian, the cozy English and our own hard-nosed American fiction, many people don’t know the Japanese are one of the great crime novel producing nations. Living in close proximity to a Books Kinokuniya awhile back, I discovered many great Japanese authors putting their own unique stamp on a genre that never goes out of style. Here are a few of …
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Nothing today. L needs big time study buddy to tackle micro and macroeconomics. Someone told her the classes were super easy. We now judge that person to be a liar par excellence. Actually, this was a complete shit week. Finally getting over the cold, but damn isn’t that way? Every time you plan on starting a project, something comes out of left field and knocks you off. At least we’re up and running even if it’s only at the pace …
Feels great to start on something after a long day, especially something that’s been bouncing around my head for a few weeks, even if the word count is low.
Right out of the gate and tumbled by a cold. No writing progress on the new book tonight and no work on the website. Pretty much starting at rock bottom
Ever had a bad day? Probably.
Ever had a bad day that involved getting bested by a genetically enhanced toddler? Probably.
Ever had a bad day that involved aliens wrecking a your big meth deal? Probably.
Ever had a bad day that involved Hitler finding out your sleeping with his girlfriend? Yeah, that's probably happened to you too.
If you've led that kind of life then this book is not for you. You've already lived it!
Contains the stories The Assassin, Mexico Juice: A Tale of Alien Invasion, The Light, Stalin, and The Corrective Collective.
When meek and spineless cuckold Norman accepts the help of The Corrective Collective, a wise cracking rhinoceros and monkey, to improve his lowly station in life, he gets more than he proverbially bargained for to the detriment of everyone around him, including himself.
After five years of sitting in orbit monitoring Earth communications, the broadcast of the infamous alien autopsy provides the perfect excuse for space aliens Splig and Dint to break the monotony and get some action. Mistaking the dead alien in the video for Yablo Dan, their hero and mentor, Splig and Dint load up the shuttle and head down to the surface for a little revenge, meth, and sex.
When Joe and Linda moved to the rural Pacific Northwest, they expected peace and tranquility. Now, piloting a restored WWI Junkers fighter with Marty, a half mad air force vet, Joe is in a race against time in an insane gamble to save them all. Those aliens will never see this coming!
Stalin loves Eva and Eva loves Stalin and Hitler doesn't like anyone all too much. Follow the murderous giant Joseph Stalin on his madcap adventures as he picks chastity belts, fights over backyard fences and suffers the shame of the lederhosen all in an attempt to woo Eva to his side.
Just another day in the life of an Amalgamated Assassin: get in, kill the baby and get out, but when the baby in question curses at him and fights back, Rocco knows this day is unlike any other. His career, and his life, on the line, Rocco sacrifices all he holds dear to finish the hit whether his wife survives it or not.