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 wild, whacky, unexpurgated madness, and I loved every minute of it. It's a sucker punch to your mental gut, but in a good way."
-Crisso

"I laughed so loud my sides hurt."
-Angee Phillips

"If you're in possession of particularly delicate sensibilities, this is not the book for you. This feels like if Adult Swim commissioned a book. It's nihilistic, absurd, wantonly crude and offensive, and impressively well structured, and very funny - if you find the reality of human awfulness funny, which I do, if it's done well, which this is. This book is ridiculous and endlessly silly, but also quite clever, and there are some interesting notions about the nature of existence resting just beneath the surface of the crazy goings-on in this book. So much fun to read, and I got through it super quickly because the pacing is fantastic! Would read again!"
-Abigail Ted


"Delightfully depraved escapism at its finest."
-Andrew Essex


"I absolutely loved this book."
-Jay Townsend


"If Elmore Leonard fused with Charles Bukowski. This book is like nothing else I've ever read. And that's a good thing. It's rare that I stumble across something so unique, so crazy, so wild."
-E. Sizmarick


"Flipper meets Pulp Fiction. This story is a mixture between flipper, little mermaid and pulp fiction but in a comical way. It was deliciously entertaining!"
-Sugdos


"There's a real, suspenseful mystery behind all the madness. I Couldn't put it down (literally, it stuck to my fingers)."
-Thomas Elouise Morgan


"An instant timeless absurdist classic!"
-Anonymous



Back of the book:

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.