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Totally Killer

by Greg Olear

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Publisher Comments:

Conspiracy and pop culture collide in 1991 New York in this dark debut from Greg Olear.

Taylor Schmidt — twenty-three, single, and jobless — arrives in the Big Apple desperate for work and hungry for love. Through the Quid Pro Quo Employment Agency she finds the perfect job and the perfect boyfriend...but perfection has its price.

Part thriller, part satire, part period piece, Totally Killer is a total page-turner.

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"The title doesn't lie — Totally Killer truly is." Jerry Stahl, bestselling author of Permanent Midnight

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"Smart, unexpected, and wonderfully savage in its humor. Totally Killer nails, without mercy, the mood and minutiae of a weary America at the end of the 20th century." Brad Listi, author of Attention. Deficit. Disorder.

Synopsis:

Debut novelist Greg Olear gets nostalgic for a recently bygone era with Totally Killer — a quirky, darkly funny, and fiendishly clever noirish tale of intrigue and suspense.

The '90s are back in this brilliant collision of conspiracy theory and pop culture that ingeniously blends assassination, politics, paranoia, Dick Cheney, CIA duplicity, and Duran Duran. The raves are already rolling in for this wonderfully twisted tale of an innocent and beautiful young Midwestern girl who finds a "totally killer" job through a most unusual employment agency in New York City.

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About the Author

Greg Olear is a frequent contributor to The Nervous Breakdown. This is his first novel.
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ISBN:
9780061735295
Author:
Olear, Greg
Publisher:
Harper Paperbacks
Subject:
Noir fiction
Subject:
Black humor (Literature)
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General
Publication Date:
October 2009
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
288
Dimensions:
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