Choke On Your Lies

With Choke on Your Lies Smith presents his homage to one of his favorite detectives Nero Wolfe but written for the internet porn generation. Octavia VanderPlatts is wealthy powerful and comfortable with her weight-or to hear her say it a rich fat b****. Her IQ is at the genius level and she uses it to manipulate and frighten anyone who tries to get in her way. She controls an empire built on discrimination lawsuits won against some of the nations top companies. On top of that Octavia doesnt care one wink what people think of her. So when she offers her old friend poetry professor Mick Thooft some help in his impending divorce he smells an ulterior motive. Maybe because Frances didnt invite Octavia to the wedding for fear of her clearing the buffet. Not only does Octavia want to help but shes got evidence-plenty of scandalous photos. Thats not Micks style so he turns her down flat...until he discovers that Frans trying to take their home based on a near-perfect forgery of his signature. After that he and Octavia charge forward but soon find theyre in deeper than they realized-robot pens swinger clubs and a blackmail scheme that holds an entire college faculty hostage. Just when Mick and Octavia are on the cusp of victory it all goes terribly wrong. Mick is framed for murder and someone targets Octavias immense wealth and secret backyard greenhouse full of exotic marijuana. With no one on their side except Octavias butler Jennings her new personal chef Harriet and their Amazon Warrior lawyer Pamela Octavia and Mick must find a way to turn the tables before they end up broke humiliated and in prison. Praise for CHOKE ON YOUR LIES: What a fantastic rip roaring read. Anthony Neil Smith makes a great case for going to college. If I had known it was so filled with sex more sex violence and wicked drama I might have gone. Really. It is a subtly complex novel that treats its characters with respect even when they are acting completely awful. -Josh Stallings author of Young AmericansAnthony Neil Smith set his best book yet in one of the countrys best known cesspools of corruption and wickedness: academia. Theres enough viciousness backstabbing and sexual depravity among Smiths small-college faculty to make Caligula look like an episode of The Little Rascals. Smith pulls off one of the hardest tricks in all of writing: he fascinates you with characters who for the most part are completely unlikable. And yet you cant look away. Great book! -J.D. Rhoades author of the Jack Keller series What a great book! Anthony Neil Smith riffs on the old Nero Wolfe novels but completely makes it his own. This book has everything someone looks for in a crime novel. Its the kind of book that makes you want to take a shower after. Youre going to cringe laugh and be blown away by the plot twists at the end. -Dave White author of the Jackson Donne series Choke on Your Lies is a finely-plotted and deftly structured story of a cuckolded husband reluctantly evening the score with an uber be-atch of a wife. The prose sings and the story rings true as the fully-rounded characters slide in and out like an insane chorus of the ill-intentioned. Anthony Neil Smith is shaping up to be one of the sharpest exponents of American noir. Not to be missed. -Tony Black author of the DI Bob Valentine series