Sayonara, Sucker

Winner of the prestigious Kalamazoo Silver Spoon Fictional Book prize, for the most absurd hard-boiled detective novel of the century.



Sayonara, Sucker is a surreal, serio-comic, slightly erotic, mystery, thriller, neo-noir, page-turner, set in a parallel universe.

Geronimo Katzenjammer is a world-class cliff diver in the twilight of his career, and on the verge of a mid-life crisis, when he meets Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii, a mysteriously alluring lounge singer who's undergone experimental mermaid augmentation surgery.

Death-defying cliff diving, killer Mexican food, sex, murder, mermaids and mayhem ensue. But leave it to the legendary alcoholic private eye, Salty "Sally" McGuffin, to save the day. Dazzling with his pistol but unlucky in love. Sally will stop at nothing to save Geronimo and bring the devilishly handsome Armenian thumb wrestler and criminal mastermind, Danny Darbinyan, to justice.

This is a story about love and deception, good versus evil, aliens, detectives, cliff divers, disgruntled baby unicorns, and the search for meaning in an utterly incomprehensible universe.



"An instant timeless classic!"

-Anonymous



This story was absolutely mad from start to finish - in an escapist, absurdly amusing way. Normally, I'm a sex-scene skipper, rarely do I find the details better described than they could be imagined, but in this book, the details of the sex scenes embraced such a wanton vulgarity that I didn't want to stop reading. There's a real, suspenseful mystery behind all the madness.

-Abigail Ted



I loved this book. I had a ton of fun reading it. This is not something I would have thought to pick up on my own, but I'm so glad you opened my eyes to a new type of book that I had a blast reading.

-Jay Townsend