Jack Baxter

Clowntown is a fun, sexy, and edgy work of literary fiction that is also a deeply philosophical endeavor with subtle references to the works of Camus and other influential philosophers who grapple with larger human questions and dilemmas. Clowntown is set in a small city in the near future; An economic collapse has fractured the world as we know it and Clowntown has seceded to become a thriving city-state with many hidden, vicious stories to tell. Clowntown itself is as colorful, complex, twisted, and perverse as its residents and Detective Jack Baxter is no exception. His life as a detective has been primarily comprised of cleaning-up after those hidden, vicious stories are told - well, that is, until now. Jack has met all types of Clowns over the course of his life and his career, but when he meets the Prizewinner, his life and his city spiral out of control. Let’s just say, things can go very, very wrong in a town full of Clowns. Clowntown is a sprawling crime novel that covers the highest echelon of society to the lowest of the degenerates and touches every Clown in between. This novel is the first-person account of Detective Jack Baxter’s attempt to keep himself and his city from falling apart. The question is, will he succeed and moreover, at what cost?