Go Kill Crazy!

by Bryan Smith

Blood! Bullets! Killer babes!

“It’s a man’s world,” according to the old saying. But a girl gang with no inhibitions when it comes to sex and violence would disagree. Dez, Echo, and Lana are former strippers with lethal curves and bad intentions. Together they embark on a wild cross-country orgy of crime, leaving rivers of blood and piles of bullet-riddled bodies in their wake. Knowing they are destined to die young--and probably violently—the girls get their kicks while they can, never suspecting they are on a collision course with notorious cult guru John Wayne de Rais and his fanatical followers. Buckle your seatbelts and hang on tight, because things are about to get crazy for the sexiest thrill killers the world has ever seen.

Genres: Horror, Thriller

285 pages, Paperback

First published February 4, 2014

About the author

Bryan Smith is the Splatterpunk Award-winning author of more than forty horror and crime books, including 68 Kill, the cult classic Depraved and its sequels, as well as The Killing Kind, Slowly We Rot, The Freakshow, and many more. Bestselling horror author Brian Keene called Slowly We Rot, "The best zombie novel I've ever read."

68 Kill was adapted into a motion picture directed by Trent Haaga and starring Matthew Gray Gubler of the long-running CBS series Criminal Minds. 68 Kill won the Midnighters Award at the SXSW film festival in 2017 and was released to wide acclaim, including positive reviews in The New York Times and Bloody Disgusting.

Bryan also co-scripted an original Harley Quinn story for the House of Horrors anthology from DC Comics. He has worked with renowned horror publishers in both the mass market and small press spheres, including Leisure Books, Samhain Publishing, Grindhouse Press, Death’s Head Press, and more. His works are available wherever books are sold, with select titles also available in German and Italian.

Reviews

[Paul Nelson · Rating 5 out of 5]

If Quentin Tarantino decided to pen his take on Charlie’s Angels laden with blood, brutality and some of the most psychopathic, take no prisoners, female characters you’re ever likely to meet, Go Kill Crazy would be the end result.

This is a high octane, intensely addictive read that feels like and deserves to be made into a movie, it’s sexy, violent and totally liberating.
The story is about three female protagonists Lana, Desiree and Echo, they are tattooed strippers, hard as nails and we learn what turned each of these lascivious girls into hardened killers, enacting the odd bit of torture, taking copious amounts of drugs and alcohol, and generally living a fast life outside of the law.

They get involved in drug running, arms dealing and life’s a riot until Echo attempts to gain closure on some unfinished business, that being the life of the ex-boyfriend who stupidly cheated on her and plunged her headfirst into this life of crime and debauchery.

Add into the mix a conman turned cult leader with visions of a merciless and violent end for as many people as possible, the ex-boyfriend determined to rescue his sister from the grasp of The Order of Wandering Souls and you have all the ingredients for a thrilling anarchic and turbulent ride.

Not for the faint hearted, there’s extreme violence, blade through scrotum type torture and some disturbing yet funny dialogue, hell this book has it all, I’ll finish with an example of some wanton violence as Echo shoots and kills an old lady driving past.
‘Dez cocked an eyebrow at Echo as she returned from the Corvette. “The fuck was that about?”
“Little old lady flipped me off back down the road”.
Dez nodded. “Right.”
As if that made perfect sense.

Highly recommended.

[Charlene (Char)🍁☕️📚 · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has it all three bad chicks and a cult what more could I possibly ask for!? Definitely love the pace of the book and the action was non-stop. There is enough violence, gore and graphic scenes that’ll keep any horror enthusiasts happy.

This book is about three women, Dez(Desire), Lana and Echo. These women are kick ass goddess which I love! These three women come together at various times and basically from a trio amongst themselves. They are bonded over heartbreak of relationships and no longer taking any Bulls*^t. These women like to kick ass and don’t take names.

A cult you say ? yes, there is a cult ran by a man named John Wayne de Rais and this guy is bad news. His followers are called The Order of the Wandering Souls. The cult definitely gives Jim Jones, David Koresh, and Charles Manson feel. This cult definitely displays each of the before mentioned. I did love that element with the book because of that I gave it five stars.

There is a full circle moment where the three bad chicks confront the cult head on the past always has a way of catching up with you. Definitely give this book a read I recommend.

[Kaisersoze · Rating 3 out of 5]

It would be a hell of a thing to live in Bryan Smith's literary world. In most of his novels the women are, without exception, smoking hot or used to be smoking hot. They're also almost all sexually carnivorous and capable of murder at the drop of a hat. Men are hunky Adonis types, power-hungry crackpots, or backwoods hillbillys. All three types are instantly smitten with any of the sexually carnivorous, smoking hot women they come across. Then, the women of Bryan Smith's world usually make them pay for said interest in any number of deviant or deplorable ways...

Go Kill Crazy! is no exception to any of the above Smith-sonian rules. It's just less horror than his usual fare and more of a ... I was going to say "exploitation novel" there, but what type of exploitation I can't decide, since everybody gets exploited in equal measure in this one. Sure, women are kidnapped, raped and brutalised. But they also perpetrate the same crimes against men, only with murder as the additional ace-up-their-sleeves. Ethnic origin doesn't matter to Smith; everybody is as good a target for a bullet as anyone else. Likewise sexual preference is irrelevant insofar as hetero, homo, or in between, every character in his world is just as likely to kill or be killed.

So Go Kill Crazy! is not really exploitative. What it is, is a great deal of mindlessly violent entertainment. Three super-hot women go on a cross country rampage purely because they're angry at how the men in their past have treated them. Along the way, one woman's ex-boyfriend becomes embroiled in the affairs of a modern day Jim Jones-esque cult, and is soon hoping his ex and her friends can help him out of the hole he finds himself in. Cue bullets, mayhem, sex, torture and murder aplenty.

I really enjoy the way Smith writes. He paints a picture with an economy of words that is enviable. His dialogue generally has the pace and feel of a real conversation. But - and this is a sizable but - Go Kill Crazy! became repetitive for me by the 70% mark. Initially two of the girls' backstories were just too similar. Once I had that worked out, the plot seemed to meander through its middle parts with a few too many scenes outlining how horrible and nasty the women could be. The climax, given all that had come before it, was also a little underwhelming.

Still, this one is a mostly-fun, ridiculously over-the-top action romp that contains enough nudity, gore and blood-spatter to satisfy all but the most potentially deranged of readers.

3 Bullets Tearing Through Skulls for Go Kill Crazy!.

The preceding honest review is based on a free ebook made available by Samhain Publishing via Netgalley.

[Stephen Cooper · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was great fun. Very pulpy/Grindhousey which I absolutely love. Everyone was so fucking badass and wild, felt like a through-back to the 70s exploitation flicks. Cult stuff was awesome too. Read a lot of Bryan Smith now and this one is right up there with his best work for me.

[Chris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bryan Smith is one of my favorites in the genre, and his brand of Southern Noir horror is both unrelenting, brutal and darkly funny. In this novel published during his time with Samhain Publishing (before they went under), Go Kill Crazy reads like a whacked out Tarantino movie on a mix of steroids and meth. Or coke.

Three strippers, for various reasons, meet and form a bloody alliance as they go on a, well, kill crazy crime spree rampage. Meanwhile, an older brother wants to rescue his younger sister from a bizarre and deadly cult before it's too late. Strangely, all these characters converge for the novel's obviously blood splattered bullet riddled conclusion. The novel's timeline jumps back and forth in order to fill in back stories but Smith handles that deftly. Not my absolute favorite by him, but still enjoyed the kill crazy wild ride.

Highly recommended but not for those who don't care for uber violence!

[Icy_Space_Cobwebs · Rating 5 out of 5]

REVIEW: GO KILL CRAZY by Bryan Smith

The name Bryan Smith in the author position guarantees uproarious, outrageous pulp noir throughout the story. Mr. Smith does have a few peers in this category but his position is his own, and unassailable. In GO KILL CRAZY he gives us a trio of unlikely, surprising, but incredibly talented and viciously sadistic assassins: not contract killers, but a trio of lovely ladies demonstrating "girls just want to have fun." Lana, Desiree, and Echo bring man-hating and man-bashing to an entirely new level. Stomachs will churn and eyes will shutter in shock; but Bryan Smith and this intrepid, ghastly, trio will keep rolling on.

[Shadow Girl · Rating 5 out of 5]

Grab your WONDER WOMAN Underoos, and nice big, hot, thick, juicy Itilian sausage - (what? PIZZA!), it's time to celebrate GRRL POWER!

Pissed off Pin Ups
I want to Go Kill Crazy with Dez, Echo and Lana <3 These thrill killers are smokin HAWT, and fueled by revenge. Well… revenge, and cocaine.
Sex, drugs, and Smith & Wesson
Goddess help the ones who get in their way, because NOTHING can save the unfortunate people who cross them. No one is safe from these former strippers. By the end of their blood soaked spree, they might not even be safe from each other.



I'm on a Bad Grrl power kick right now, so I need to go scrounge for forgotten change - try to scrape up enough to spend some time with my favorite Bad Grrl, the original Pissed off Pin-Up <3 Roxy, from THE KILLING KIND 2 is available now, and I'm dying to find out what she gets up to with Rob, and who are the other serial killers she meets along the way?
Could it possibly be Dez, Echo, and Lana?!
A GKC/KK2 mash/up - tie in?!!
Omg!! How freakin' awesome would that be?!

Until next time…
Peace, Love, & Necrophilia
~sg

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[Rajeev Singh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tattooed, gun-toting, trigger-happy, drool-jerker, cockteasing Lady Rambos were never more appealing than Dez, Echo and Lana. Picture a minimally dressed, coked-up bombshell strutting about with bee-stung lips, a smoking pistol in hand and falcon wings inked in her Grand Canyon cleavage and you get the idea. Like ''Depraved 3,'' with its mouth-wetting pulpy theme of Nazisploitation in a women's prison, this one is another homage to the erotic horror/thriller genre which establishes Bryan Smith as one of the best purveyors of fetishistic stories for all the sick motherfuckers out there, as he himself says in the dedicatory note at the beginning. Long live the Dezsexuals (read the book to learn more about this species) and those who write with them in mind.

[Douglas Castagna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Take a couple of hot strippers who have been wronged by men, add some alchohol, drugs, and a whole lot of violence, and you have about one tenth of the energey and the mayhem that is this book. Extreme. That would be a good word to sum up this one from Smith. And it deeps on delivering. Just when you thought that the violence in this book had hit its apex, it breaks through the ceiling. Smith manages, amidst this to create some believable characters and some ladies that you want to meet, and would be afraid to, at the very same time. Great ride!

[Scott · Rating 5 out of 5]

Psycho gorgeous strippers on a killing spree? If this sounds good to you, you won't be disappointed. Bryan Smith fans rejoice; the over-the-top sex and violence that he is known for shows no signs of mellowing. Great characters and crazy action make this a modern pulp classic.

[Steven jb · Rating 4 out of 5]

Three strippers go kill crazy while one of their ex boyfriends tries to rescue his sister from a crazy cult. The storylines intersect for a bloody, sex filled denouement. A good read with interesting characters.

[Karl · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some parts of his body were missing. A Girl gang with no inhibitions when it comes to sex and violence. Another brilliant book by Mr. Smith.

[Kurt Reichenbaugh · Rating 4 out of 5]

The lesson here is don't eff around with lethal strippers!

[Richard Longmore · Rating 3 out of 5]

There's a whole internet rabbit hole of "Men Writing Women Badly", where out of context sections of books are shared - generally involving beautiful women becoming aroused in ridiculous scenarios, acting like women are always horny and constantly hot.

I say this, because if you enjoy these takes on female sexuality, you'll love Go Kill Crazy! by Bryan Smith. We get a trio of ladies, all sexy, young, horny, and psychotic. Oh, right. They kill people for fun. Also sex. Sometimes in the same location one after another.

There's a strong Tarantino feeling with the book - often moving backward and forward in time randomly, sometimes setting up events in the past that pay off long after it mattered for the plot. Dez, Echo, and Lana, our three tattooed, erotic dancers/serial killers share details of what led them to this point (hint: no one's backstory would pass the Bechdel Test). Events go into motion that may just make our intrepid harem of killers into heroes - working to break into and destroy a homicidal cult from the inside.

Filled to the brim with pulpy goodness, if you want a tale of crazy, sexy women going wild, this is for you. If you're a Bryan Smith fan, familiar with his horror work and expect some of that suspense and/or disturbing content, you'll likely find yourself wanting. It's just not that kind of book. It's not his first foray into this type of action - an Andy Sidaris film in book format. 68 Kill, The Killing Kind and their sequels are examples of this style. I felt those books did a better job of tying together the disturbing/horror aspects with the sexy-killers-on-a-bender plotline.

So in the end, I enjoyed the book for what it is, and would recommend it to Bryan Smith fans. Yet, I must admit that there are better options in his oeuvre for a newer reader, hence the somewhat reduced score.

[Nick · Rating 3 out of 5]

Stop me if you've heard this one before . . . three strippers go on a killing spree and wind up taking on a religious cult. Well, that's kind of the idea here. It works. It's a fun story, for sure. Had this been my first Bryan Smith novel, I think it may have had more of an effect on me, but he's handled the sexy lady (or ladies) with homicidal tendencies many times before, and I think, to better effect. It's kind of his specialty. But I don't want to overly criticize the story. It's fun. I enjoyed it. And they fought a crazy cult. I love that too. They can put their murderous talents to good use. Fantastic!

In this book, more so than in his previous catalog, Smith experimented a bit with the structure of the story, telling certain parts out of order, skipping around between past and present, withholding details from earlier for a bigger effect when the backstory is revealed. It was an interesting move on his part, and overall I think it served to enhance the narrative.

The biggest fault with the book lies in the big climactic sequence, where the trio we've been following for the whole story kind of fade into the background of the events unfolding. Suddenly other characters play more important roles and all the tension and power struggles within their tight knit group kind of become a moot point as the story resolves. There is a nice little epilogue of sorts that closes up the book, tying the survivors of both the cult and the heroines together. So that was pretty cool.

So I would say, check the book out. If you like the kind of stories Smith writes, it might not be your favorite, but you won't be disappointed.

[Иван Величков · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ако ми поискате една книга, която да опише творчеството на Брайън Смит - това ще е тази. Нездравата му фиксация към яки мацки с психопатични наклонности и афинитет към наркотични субстанции тук достига до своя апогей.
Три стриптизьорки, разочаровани от мъжете, тръгват на безгрижна обиколка из южните щати и сеят смърт и брутално насилие по пътя си. Зад гърба им стои един доста заможен тексаски бизнесмен със съмнителни доходи, а ще им се наложи да се изправят срещу водач на култ, взаимстван дирктно от историята на Менсън. Всичко това е гарнирано с доволни дози черен хумор, абсурдни ситуации и трупове на килограм. Пълен безсмислен кеф за четене.

[Terry Miller · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fun, bloody ride...

This book was a great splatter-filled romp with plenty of traits to both love and hate about the main characters. I don't know if there is a part two yet but, if not, I'm begging Mr. Smith to hop to it. Time's a-wasting!

[Topspin247 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Adventures of Echo, Lana, and Dez against a cult.

[Angela Occhino · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5⭐️

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rounded up from trying 3.5 stars.

Overall I enjoyed this, as I’ve enjoyed all of Smith’s books so far. However, as with a lot of what he writes, Go Kill Crazy! spends a lot of its page-count on buildup and backstory at the expense of a satisfyingly-paced ending. Don’t get me wrong: the buildup and backstory are great, but the last few chapters felt really rushed, with the death of one of the most significant characters happening offstage.

[Wayne W · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is non stop action. The violence is over the top gross out stuff at times. I couldn't put it down. If you want a fun read from an exciting author; pick this book up. I got it for less than five bucks on kindle. It's well worth it.

[Brian Fagan · Rating 4 out of 5]

this was a hell of a book. there were several parts throughout where the action stayed to fat from the three female leads but overall what a blast.

I'd love to read a series of books with these girls.

[Diana Bresee · Rating 5 out of 5]

So much fun to read this book. I've loved Bryan Smith's supernatural horror but his new direction with crime thrillers is awesome. It's like watching a Tarantino movie.

[Noigeloverlord · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fast paced killfest! No one writes strong independent women like Bryan Smith and he out did himself with 3 of them this time. This would make one heck of an action movie

[Patrick Elsey · Rating 1 out of 5]

violent for the sake of being violent. Written as if it was still the early 90's.

[James · Rating 2 out of 5]

Killer sluts run around and execute people. FUN. But the magic just isn't there, I'm afraid.