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A surreal and colorful world populated with two-faced talk-show hosts, cheerful Finnish mobsters, bloodthirsty white supremacists, snide English butlers, and panther-wielding Euro-trash assassins.

Down-on-his-luck rideshare driver Jerry Hauser’s existence is a bleak one…especially because every fare he picks up tells him how much he looks like uber-successful self-help guru Darren Hart. But after a twist of fate, Jerry is given the chance of a lifetime…which, if he’s not careful, may well end his lifetime. So begins this California noir―a rollicking and gleefully lurid pulp crime story for our time.

Owen King is the author of Double Feature, and We’re All in This Together: A Novella and Stories. He is the coauthor of Sleeping Beauties and Intro to Alien Invasion and the coeditor of Who Can Save Us Now? Brand-New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories. His latest novel, The Curator, was published in March 2023. He lives in upstate New York with his family.

Kellerman is a writer. He has published five solo novels; six novels in collaboration with his father, Jonathan Kellerman; a bunch of plays; and a handful of essays. You can learn more about him by Googling his name. Everything that comes up is true.

Marianna Ignazzi is an Italian comic artist based in Rome. Ignazzi made her debut in a cartoon strip on the second issue of Mostri from Bugs Comics. This was followed by Fuori la Notte and Malattie D’Amore for I Ragazzi di Pasteur series from Carocci Editore. For Edizioni Star Comics, she illustrated Il ritratto di Dorian Gray in I Maestri del Mistero series. Since 2016 she's been working on the series Julia by Sergio Bonelli Editore. Ignazzi has also illustrated comic book series such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Bram Stoker Award-nominated original series An Unkindness of Ravens from BOOM! Studios.