A dark black comedy thriller set in Los Angeles in the early 80s about a stand-up comic whos search for the truth leads to his downfall. When Jonny Goodis exceeds the limits of free speech, he draws fire from his audience, his enemies and his peers. Hunted and tormented, Goodis must deliver the performance of his life if he hopes to survive.
"After a captivating first chapter that involves a hit man who fires his kill-shots into Jon's body before another man kills him, readers--through a flashback--return to a time ten years earlier. The intriguing twists and turns in this thriller keep readers spellbound as the storyline moves forward at a fast pace.
The author brings this character to life in a way that allows readers to see the subtle and not-so-subtle changes that take place in his personality as the years pass. This sets the background for ten years of mystery involving the CIA, additional murders, and Jon's realization that his own life is in danger. His father is murdered, and the younger Goodis knows that he is being followed and watched. Fascinating clues are planted but readers are kept guessing with their eyes glued to the pages.
The author suggests that if Jon had known what was ahead that he would have continued teaching, not bought a dog, and certainly not gone running with Hunt on that fateful day ten years earlier. Of course, readers won't feel this way as they would have missed out on the unforgettablestoryline of this "must read" thriller."
- IP Book Reviewers
"Stumbling across the scene as Soviet agents sadistically slaughter an émigré physicist in Malibu Canyon launches a billionaire industrialist's son--and standup wannabe--on a Kafkaesque '80s odyssey that can't decide whether it's a thriller, love story, spy novel or social commentary.
Far from producing an effect of agreeable mystification, the author's circling back to events and shifting their apparent reality ends up simply frustrating... ambitiously plotted."
- Kirkus Discoveries
