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Synopsis
“Everyone knows that California sunshine is the world’s loneliest light,” says Benny, who inhabits an underworld of desperados and grotesques and spends much of his free time at the Greasy Tuesday, a squalid, southern California neighborhood dive teeming with local legends. One night, one of these legends walks through the door: Gus “Mad Dog” Miller, a huge, tattoo-laden Vietnam vet who sports a necklace of severed ears and whose job at the Greasy Tuesday is “to keep the riffraff out.” “But everyone's riffraff here,” Benny protests. But Benny, our morally ambiguous hero, soon finds himself transfixed by this twisted Falstaffian personality, and six months later Benny is arrested on suspicion of double murder.
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Review
"This smart and funny first novel had me by the second page... A classily written caper with an authentically touching streak of melancholy" (Sam Leith Telegraph)
"Consistently amusing and affecting... Very much in the vein of Elmore Leonard or Carl Hiaasen...funny and fast moving" (Jonathan Gibbs Independent on Sunday)
"This is a thriller packed full of rich situations and even richer characters, and the fact that it is also very funny does not detract from the life-and-death action. This is a remarkably assured debut from Los Angeles Times reporter Christopher Goffard, who writes like an angel and plots like a demon" (Matthew Lewin Guardian)
"Goffard certainly knows how to make us sympathise with Benny - an articulate crook is always an attractive character" (Zoe Jewell Time Out)
"If you've been missing your regular Hunter S Thompson doses, then Snitch Jacket could fill the void" (Big Issue)
Book Description
An hilarious debut about a pair of Californian misfits who bungle a contract hit.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. Everyone knows that California sunshine is the world's loneliest light, says Benny, who inhabits an underworld of desperados and grotesques and spends much of his free time at the Greasy Tuesday, a squalid, southern California neighborhood dive teeming with local legends. One night, one of these legends walks through the door: Gus Mad Dog Miller, a huge, tattoo-laden Vietnam vet who sports a necklace of severed ears and whose job at the Greasy Tuesday is to keep the riffraff out. But everyone's riffraff here, Benny protests. But Benny, our morally ambiguous hero, soon finds himself transfixed by this twisted Falstaffian personality, and six months later Benny is arrested on suspicion of double murder. Seller Inventory # 00107336194
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