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The Next One
Jack Daws, disgraced CIA agent, terrible writer, committed drunk and flagging degenerate, is back. Thirteen years after his awful first novel, The God Complex, sold 97 million copies and either predicted or inspired the assassination of a president-elect, Daws has delivered an even worse sequel.
His publisher couldn't be more
ALEX ANGEL, the kick-ass one-armed nun, is BACK! A dozen years after her first thrilling, sexy adventure in the mega-blockbusting God Complex, the sister assassin returns to battle an all-new evil Pope and his monk minions and uncover a sacred secret that will bring about Armageddon, or worse. God's Blood, out in time for Christmas.
One Daws' fans keep trying to kill him. Or the CIA is trying to kill him and make it look like his fans killed him. Or his fans are trying to kill him and make it look like the CIA killed him trying to make it look like his fans were killing him.
That is, if Daws doesn't kill himself first.
Welcome to 2018, where reality is optional, fiction is nonfiction, where what could go wrong went wrong, a living underworld of steamy Octobers, endless garbage strikes, black market erectile dysfunction drugs, seven different kinds of terrorists, Seth McFarlane on Broadway — as you feared, only a little worse.
This 25,000-word excerpt — profane, filthy, with anger issues — begins a work-in-progress the author should have finished by now.
His publisher couldn't be more
ALEX ANGEL, the kick-ass one-armed nun, is BACK! A dozen years after her first thrilling, sexy adventure in the mega-blockbusting God Complex, the sister assassin returns to battle an all-new evil Pope and his monk minions and uncover a sacred secret that will bring about Armageddon, or worse. God's Blood, out in time for Christmas.
One Daws' fans keep trying to kill him. Or the CIA is trying to kill him and make it look like his fans killed him. Or his fans are trying to kill him and make it look like the CIA killed him trying to make it look like his fans were killing him.
That is, if Daws doesn't kill himself first.
Welcome to 2018, where reality is optional, fiction is nonfiction, where what could go wrong went wrong, a living underworld of steamy Octobers, endless garbage strikes, black market erectile dysfunction drugs, seven different kinds of terrorists, Seth McFarlane on Broadway — as you feared, only a little worse.
This 25,000-word excerpt — profane, filthy, with anger issues — begins a work-in-progress the author should have finished by now.
161 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 3, 2017
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About the author
Larry Doyle
13 books71 followersLarry Doyle's first novel, I Love You, Beth Cooper, won the 2008 Thurber Prize for American Humor.
His second novel, Go, Mutants!, was named one of the best novels of 2010 by the Washington Post.
Deliriously Happy, a 2011 collection of humor pieces from the New Yorker and elsewhere, didn't win any awards but some people liked it.
The Next One, an e-booklet was released in 2017. It's fate has yet to be determined.
Larry Doyle was a writer and producer of The Simpsons for four years; he wrote the films Duplex, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, and I Love You, Beth Cooper. He also wrote a bunch of Beavis and Buttheads, a couple Rugrats and Daria.
He was an editor at the National Lampoon, SPY, and New York, and wrote for Esquire, Rolling Stone, Time and other magazines, which were things made out of paper.
More information, mostly reliable, is available at larrydoyle.com
His second novel, Go, Mutants!, was named one of the best novels of 2010 by the Washington Post.
Deliriously Happy, a 2011 collection of humor pieces from the New Yorker and elsewhere, didn't win any awards but some people liked it.
The Next One, an e-booklet was released in 2017. It's fate has yet to be determined.
Larry Doyle was a writer and producer of The Simpsons for four years; he wrote the films Duplex, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, and I Love You, Beth Cooper. He also wrote a bunch of Beavis and Buttheads, a couple Rugrats and Daria.
He was an editor at the National Lampoon, SPY, and New York, and wrote for Esquire, Rolling Stone, Time and other magazines, which were things made out of paper.
More information, mostly reliable, is available at larrydoyle.com
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August 16, 2018
Read it at your own risk!
Larry Doyle will turn your head around with smart, funny and twisty prose. He runs amuck with lots of hidden snickers, guffaws and sly winks in a story that is largely just a vehicle for the author to show off how adept he is at making sentences glow as well as squirm! Loved its audacity.
Larry Doyle will turn your head around with smart, funny and twisty prose. He runs amuck with lots of hidden snickers, guffaws and sly winks in a story that is largely just a vehicle for the author to show off how adept he is at making sentences glow as well as squirm! Loved its audacity.
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