GUN MONKEYS Charlie Swift just pumped three .38-caliber bullets into a dead polar bear in his taxidermist girlfriend’s garage. But he’s a gun monkey, and no one can blame him for having an itchy trigger finger. Ever since he drove down the Florida Turnpike with a headless body in the trunk of a Chrysler, then took down four cops, Charlie’s been running hard through the sprawling sleaze of central Florida. And to make matters worse, he’s holding on to some crooked paperwork that a lot of people would like to take off his hands. Now, with his boss disappeared and his friends dropping like flies, Charlie has got his work cut out just to survive. If he wants to keep the money and get the girl too, he’s really going to have to go ape. * Nominated for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel * * Film adaptation in development, with screenplay written by Lee Goldberg, and Ryûhei Kitamura attached to direct. * Rights Information Publisher: Bantam Dell, Mass market paperback (November 4, 2003) Territory: All Rights Reserved Rights Available: Translation Reviews: "Think of Gun Monkeys as Tarantino if scripted by Hiaasen, Sir Elmore as directed by the old John Woo, Peckinpah in plaid. Cinematic pulp in a hard place. From the slo-mo poot to the sass-paced swoop, this is, er, killer reading. Some bloody fun, indeed." - John Hood, Bully Magazine Blurbs: Purchase at Amazon.com

GUN MONKEYS

Charlie Swift just pumped three .38-caliber bullets into a dead polar bear in his taxidermist girlfriend’s garage. But he’s a gun monkey, and no one can blame him for having an itchy trigger finger. Ever since he drove down the Florida Turnpike with a headless body in the trunk of a Chrysler, then took down four cops, Charlie’s been running hard through the sprawling sleaze of central Florida. And to make matters worse, he’s holding on to some crooked paperwork that a lot of people would like to take off his hands. Now, with his boss disappeared and his friends dropping like flies, Charlie has got his work cut out just to survive. If he wants to keep the money and get the girl too, he’s really going to have to go ape.

* Nominated for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel *
* Film adaptation in development, with screenplay written by Lee Goldberg, and Ryûhei Kitamura attached to direct. *

Rights Information

Publisher: Bantam Dell, Mass market paperback (November 4, 2003)

Rights Available: Translation

Reviews:
"Think of Gun Monkeys as Tarantino if scripted by Hiaasen, Sir Elmore as directed by the old John Woo, Peckinpah in plaid. Cinematic pulp in a hard place. From the slo-mo poot to the sass-paced swoop, this is, er, killer reading. Some bloody fun, indeed." - John Hood, Bully Magazine

Blurbs:

Purchase at Amazon.com