Matt Ruff: Bad Monkeys, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Kurzbeschreibung

The author of the critically-acclaimed SET THIS HOUSE IN ORDER is back with a page-turning psychological thriller about a secret organization of vigilantes that will keep you guessing until the very last page!

Beschreibung

Secret organizations. Vigilantes wiping out "irredeemable persons." Futuristic technology. The fight between good and evil. The mind-bending BAD MONKEYS has all of this plus more.
Jane Charlotte is a misunderstood misfit who leaves home as a teenager and walks through life on a broken path. She s a loner who dabbles in drugs and alcohol, but never loses her sense of who she is and what is right and wrong. But when she is arrested for murder in Las Vegas, it turns out her life is more than what it seems as she unravels a fast-paced story of a world of secret societies surrounding our everyday existence. As her story unfolds, the meaning of "bad monkeys" comes to life and common perceptions of right and wrong are taken to task. The plot begins to twist and turn and the real fun begins as the search for the truth behind our mysterious storyteller is constantly flipped up-side-down.
Matt Ruff dazzled readers with his last novel -- the psychological drama SET THIS HOUSE IN ORDER. Now the wait for a new thriller of existential questions and out of this world action is over. In BAD MONKEYS Ruff proves once again that his prose can mesmerize you as his stories take you places you d never realized you were going.

Klappentext

“Bad Monkeys has wit and imagination by the bucketload. . . . Buy it, read it, memorize then destroy it. There are eyes everywhere.
--Chris Moore, bestselling author of A Dirty Job and Lamb
Jane Charlotte has been arrested for murder. She tells police that she is a member of a secret organization devoted to fighting evil; her division is called the Department for the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons--“Bad Monkeys for short. This confession earns Jane a trip to the jail's psychiatric wing, where a doctor attempts to determine whether she is lying, crazy, or playing a different game altogether.
Clever and gripping, full of unexpected twists and turns, teasing existential musings, and captivating prose, Bad Monkeys unfolds at lightning speed, taking readers to another realm of imagination.