SECRET DEAD MEN Del Farmer isn't your ordinary hardboiled private eye. Instead of collecting fingerprints or clues, he collects souls of the recently dead. His latest dead guy, Brad Larsen, might just be the key to destroying Farmer's longtime nemesis, The Association. Of course, Farmer is sadly mistaken. An FBI agent unstuck in time is toying with him. A mysterious couple keeps trying to kill him. Another job - a mundane babysitting gig that pays the bills - is threatening to steer him way off course into a violent hell of sexual deceit, fractured identities and cheap apartment toilets. Rights Information Publisher: PointBlank, Hardcover (January 1, 2005) PointBlank, Paperback (December 15, 2006) Territory: World English Rights Available: Translation via Baror International; Film/TV via Cheng Caplan Co. Reviews: "Fresh and idiosyncratic… Offbeat, quirky and confident, revealing Swierczynski as a talented newcomer." – Chicago Sun-Times "One of the most surreal, amusing crime thrillers in recent memory. A masterpiece of weirdness and humor." – January Magazine "Crime fiction doesn’t get much weirder." - Publisher’s Weekly "Filled with fascinating creations and memorable scenes. [Secret Dead Men] takes the traditional forms and puts a unique spin on them, reflecting the mind of an author with both new ideas and an idiosyncratic personality." - Philadelphia Inquirer Blurbs: "Believe in nothing, believe in Hell, believe in the Brain Hotel... Secret Dead Men is the most uplifting, hilarious, moving novel since Catcher in the Rye." - Ken Bruen, author of the Shamus Award-winning The Guards "A profoundly psychotic hilarious whodunit fantasy… It’s as if [Swierczynski] simultaneously channeled Philip K. Dick, Eugene Ionesco, Richard Matheson, Raymond Chandler and Charles Willeford." - Ed Gorman "Wild and hilarious… this is a high-speed, laugh a line page turner. You’ll read straight through Secret Dead Men and wish there was more." - Charlie Stella, author of Charlie Opera and Cheapskates "Duane Swierczynski’s Secret Dead Men is sort of its own genre, a blend of SF and mystery like none other I’ve run across. This is not your father’s mystery novel. It’s wild, weird, and very entertaining." – Bill Crider "If Charlie Kaufman wrote noir, you’d have this book. Hilarious and unique." - “Knucklehead,” on Amazon.com "In his debut novel, Duane Swierczynski has created a quirky story that is part hardboiled private investigator novel, part psychological thriller, part supernatural suspense story. It’s original, tremendously entertaining." - Damien Gay, epinions.com Purchase at Amazon.com

SECRET DEAD MEN

Del Farmer isn't your ordinary hardboiled private eye. Instead of collecting fingerprints or clues, he collects souls of the recently dead. His latest dead guy, Brad Larsen, might just be the key to destroying Farmer's longtime nemesis, The Association. Of course, Farmer is sadly mistaken. An FBI agent unstuck in time is toying with him. A mysterious couple keeps trying to kill him. Another job - a mundane babysitting gig that pays the bills - is threatening to steer him way off course into a violent hell of sexual deceit, fractured identities and cheap apartment toilets.

Rights Information

Publisher: PointBlank, Hardcover (January 1, 2005)
PointBlank, Paperback (December 15, 2006)

Territory: World English

Rights Available: Translation via Baror International; Film/TV via Cheng Caplan Co.

Reviews:
"Fresh and idiosyncratic… Offbeat, quirky and confident, revealing Swierczynski as a talented newcomer." – Chicago Sun-Times

"One of the most surreal, amusing crime thrillers in recent memory. A masterpiece of weirdness and humor." – January Magazine

"Crime fiction doesn’t get much weirder." - Publisher’s Weekly

"Filled with fascinating creations and memorable scenes. [Secret Dead Men] takes the traditional forms and puts a unique spin on them, reflecting the mind of an author with both new ideas and an idiosyncratic personality." - Philadelphia Inquirer

Blurbs:
"Believe in nothing, believe in Hell, believe in the Brain Hotel... Secret Dead Men is the most uplifting, hilarious, moving novel since Catcher in the Rye." - Ken Bruen, author of the Shamus Award-winning The Guards

"A profoundly psychotic hilarious whodunit fantasy… It’s as if [Swierczynski] simultaneously channeled Philip K. Dick, Eugene Ionesco, Richard Matheson, Raymond Chandler and Charles Willeford." - Ed Gorman

"Wild and hilarious… this is a high-speed, laugh a line page turner. You’ll read straight through Secret Dead Men and wish there was more." - Charlie Stella, author of Charlie Opera and Cheapskates

"Duane Swierczynski’s Secret Dead Men is sort of its own genre, a blend of SF and mystery like none other I’ve run across. This is not your father’s mystery novel. It’s wild, weird, and very entertaining." – Bill Crider

"If Charlie Kaufman wrote noir, you’d have this book. Hilarious and unique." - “Knucklehead,” on Amazon.com

"In his debut novel, Duane Swierczynski has created a quirky story that is part hardboiled private investigator novel, part psychological thriller, part supernatural suspense story. It’s original, tremendously entertaining." - Damien Gay, epinions.com

Purchase at Amazon.com