Paul

“The last novel Brandeggen wrote—The Red Handler Lands in Trouble with the Authorities—is therefore also better understood in relation to this unused origin story, since the freedom the Red Handler has been given eventually comes back to bite him and is revoked due to either unsubmitted paperwork or the incident detailed in The Red Handler and the Out-of-Control-Urine.”
― Johan Harstad, Red Handler

“Crime fiction for the gentleman who loves crime novels, but hates reading.”
― Johan Harstad, Red Handler

“Brandeggen himself smoked constantly and advocated for the greater social acceptance of double-smoking (inhaling from two cigarettes simultaneously) as something more than a party trick.”
― Johan Harstad, Red Handler

“As a matter of fact he had not. And, thinking it now, he felt the chill of the ocean ease back into its grip around him; the enervating cold plundered his loins, his heart—he felt himself freeze, within, into frightened immobility, like a defenseless minor creature; his fear deprived him of his sense of being human, and of being a man. It was not a man’s fear; it was the fear of a small animal. It shrank him, as if devolving him into ages past; it eradicated the contemporary aspects of his self, his being. God, he thought. I am feeling a fear that is millions of years old.”
― Philip K. Dick, Galactic Pot-Healer