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No palm trees in New York
Jack Waymon’s life is spiraling out of control, and he wouldn’t have it any other way.
Hailing from small-town Florida, he bulldozes into New York City under the sweltering heat of summer, writing inflammatory magazine articles by day, chasing beautiful women by night, and getting into violent fistfights at every turn. The resulting notoriety quickly puts him in the crosshairs of the city’s most colorful degenerates.
Surrounded by a cast of unforgettable characters – from his rageaholic boss to an enigmatic billionaire, an unhinged Russian criminal and a crew of boisterous ex-cons – Jack’s wild adventure takes him from drug-fueled, felonious escapades on the bad side of town to luxurious penthouses overlooking Central Park. As Jack’s life descends into mayhem in a haze of substance abuse and savage behavior, the line between gathering wild material for his novel and self-destruction begins to blur. Writing a book was the original objective, but the question soon arises whether Jack will make it out of New York City alive.
This debut novel is a frenetic, action-packed, darkly hilarious, and often poignant chronicle of a young, angry man on a mission to make a name for himself in a world upside-down.
Hailing from small-town Florida, he bulldozes into New York City under the sweltering heat of summer, writing inflammatory magazine articles by day, chasing beautiful women by night, and getting into violent fistfights at every turn. The resulting notoriety quickly puts him in the crosshairs of the city’s most colorful degenerates.
Surrounded by a cast of unforgettable characters – from his rageaholic boss to an enigmatic billionaire, an unhinged Russian criminal and a crew of boisterous ex-cons – Jack’s wild adventure takes him from drug-fueled, felonious escapades on the bad side of town to luxurious penthouses overlooking Central Park. As Jack’s life descends into mayhem in a haze of substance abuse and savage behavior, the line between gathering wild material for his novel and self-destruction begins to blur. Writing a book was the original objective, but the question soon arises whether Jack will make it out of New York City alive.
This debut novel is a frenetic, action-packed, darkly hilarious, and often poignant chronicle of a young, angry man on a mission to make a name for himself in a world upside-down.
330 pages, Hardcover
Published October 16, 2024
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Jack Waymon
1 bookJack dedicated nearly two decades to crafting his debut novel, "No Palm Trees in New York." Born in the 1980s and raised in the 1990s, he came of age during the internet age of the 2010s. With a lifelong fascination for American counter-culture writers of the 1960s and 1970s, Jack offers a distinctive style and perspective in his writing; raw, wild, darkly humorous, and without compromise.
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