What an astounding, loony tour de force! Hard-boiled yet comedic, realistic yet absurd-Jack Fish is a noir story told in technicolor. It also puts in time as a real love letter to New York City. J Milligan is a great new writer, and this is a great new book.-Jonathan Ames, author of Wake Up, Sir!

Dig it: Jack Fish is a wild ride through a groovy new novelist's imagination. It's juicy metaphor, hot satire and a boss meditation on media. J Milligan is here to stay.-James Ellroy, author of L.A. Confidential

Wonderful. . . . Told with the same mad glee as Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn or Thom Jones's best stories. I read it with a permanent smile on my face and am happy to say it made me laugh out loud a lot.-Jonathan Carroll, author of White Apples and The Wooden Sea

At once a love song to New York City and a madcap assassination plot, Jack Fish is funny, smart, and utterly engaging. I read it from start to finish without stopping. You will, too.-Joshua Henkin, author of Swimming Across the Hudson

Somewhere off Coney Island, paddling through seaweed and Styrofoam, is secret agent Jack Fish. As an operative of the Elders of Atlantis, he is to find their enemy and spear him. Once he gets the hang of breathing on the surface, he can take up his mission. Staggering out of the water, he begins his odyssey into the strange city of New York. He's concerned about adjusting, but if he can make it here, he can make it anywhere. At first worried about being noticed, he discovers the Topworld is teeming with neighborhoods that are like reefs, filled with air breathers who seem as alien as he feels. (You're from Atlanta?). Jack Fish is just another dude from outof town, hanging out at the Mermaid Diner, scratching the webbing between his toes.

Headlong and wildly entertaining, Jack Fish does for Atlanteans what Anonymous Rex did for dinosaurs.

J Milligan has been published in The New Yorker and is co-author of a non-fiction book, The Wisdom of Big Bird and the Dark Genius of Oscar the Grouch.

"A comedic noir [that] brims throughout with hyperspecific detail and hipster patois. . . . I was, uh, fairly hooked."-Henry Alford, The New York Times Book Review

"Zany, bouncy, endlessly droll. . . . Through the eyes of a true foreigner New York seems more grimy, eccentric, and alive than ever."-Publishers Weekly

"Greatly entertaining."-San Francisco Chronicle

"A pure pleasure."-Booklist

"A breezy romp through downtown's metrosexual underbelly."-The Village Voice

"A wild ride through a groovy new novelist's imagination."-James Ellroy

"An astonishing literary debut. . . . No doubt about it, Jack Fishwill blow you out of the water."-Eric Garcia

"Hard-boiled yet comedic, realistic yet absurd-Jack Fishis a noir story told in technicolor. It also puts in time as a real love letter to New York City. J Milligan is a great new writer, and this is a great new book."-Jonathan Ames

Somewhere off Coney Island, paddling through the seaweed and Styrofoam, is secret agent Jack Fish. As an operative of the Elders of Atlantis, he is to locate their enemy and spear him.

Staggering out of the water, Jack begins his odyssey into the strange city of New York. He's concerned about adjusting, but he discovers the Topworld is teeming with air-breathers who seem as alien as he feels. ("You're from Atlanta?") If he can make it here, he can make it anywhere.

Jack Fish is just another dude from out of town, hanging out at the Mermaid Diner, scratching the webbing between his toes.

Somewhere off Coney Island, paddling through seaweed and Styrofoam, is secret agent "Jack Fish." As an operative of the Elders of Atlantis, he is to find their enemy and spear him. Headlong and wildly entertaining, "Jack Fish" does for Atlanteans what "Anonymous Rex" did for dinosaurs.

J Milligan is the co-author of a nonfiction book, The Wisdom of Big Bird and the Dark Genius of Oscar the Grouch (Villard 2003). He has been published in The New Yorker and XXL magazine and on word.com. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, the artist Amy Yang, and their daughter. Jack Fish is his first novel.