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Crushed Trachea Blues
Suicide by Jiu-Jitsu. Seriously? The Los Angeles DA office is stumped on a dead cage fighter. The Valley police don't even know where to start.
Private eye Paisley Fuentes leaves Functioning Alcoholics Anonymous for the dark underbelly of Los Angeles. He scours intimidating MMA gyms, corrupt corporate high-rises, and the unforgiving wastes of Death Valley. He tussles with vegan crime bosses, nerd assassins, and—get this—AI Charles Manson. It's all so perplexing, but he has help in his weirdo friends. From skyscrapers to sand dunes, everyone's looking for a borax miner the hippies call Unethical Ted. Can they stop an illegal music festival out in the desert before it starts Smelt Her Dealt Her, a war between the bloodmouths and the haybreaths?
It's Thomas Pynchon meets David Lynch, with a dash of UFC thrown in. Settle down with a copy of Crushed Trachea Blues. Take a shot of tequila. Help Paisley out.
Private eye Paisley Fuentes leaves Functioning Alcoholics Anonymous for the dark underbelly of Los Angeles. He scours intimidating MMA gyms, corrupt corporate high-rises, and the unforgiving wastes of Death Valley. He tussles with vegan crime bosses, nerd assassins, and—get this—AI Charles Manson. It's all so perplexing, but he has help in his weirdo friends. From skyscrapers to sand dunes, everyone's looking for a borax miner the hippies call Unethical Ted. Can they stop an illegal music festival out in the desert before it starts Smelt Her Dealt Her, a war between the bloodmouths and the haybreaths?
It's Thomas Pynchon meets David Lynch, with a dash of UFC thrown in. Settle down with a copy of Crushed Trachea Blues. Take a shot of tequila. Help Paisley out.
251 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 6, 2024
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Bradley VanDeventer
6 books7 followersBradley VanDeventer is the author of Our Lady of the Hypercube and various short stories. He dabbles in Muay Thai and loves music above all. He lives in Anaheim, CA.
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May 9, 2025
A wild Pynchonian (I nearly said punchonian, but that would actually have been correct) experience from a truly gifted author. A thrilling ride that never lets up, a wonderfully comic and fascinatingly philosophical yarn about detectives, femmes fatale, martial arts malarkey and almost everything you can think of.
I thoroughly recommend this book for anyone who loves contemporary American satire and the expressionistically surreal. If you like Pynchon, Barthelme, dry-and-hilarious Burroughs or the funnier early work of Beckett, this is the book for you.
I thoroughly recommend this book for anyone who loves contemporary American satire and the expressionistically surreal. If you like Pynchon, Barthelme, dry-and-hilarious Burroughs or the funnier early work of Beckett, this is the book for you.
March 9, 2025
What does an Ezekiel choke, militant vegans worshipping an AI Charles Manson, and a corporate conspiracy have in common?
That's up for Paisley to figure out while staring through the cloudy gloss of an empty bottle of tequila.
A pulpy, hardboiled, private eye Noir that I couldn't put down.
Ninety Three
That's up for Paisley to figure out while staring through the cloudy gloss of an empty bottle of tequila.
A pulpy, hardboiled, private eye Noir that I couldn't put down.
Ninety Three
August 23, 2024
The Murderino in me 🤝 The Fight Wife in me
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