No Good About Goodbye

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>A 2022 IndieBRAG medallion recipient</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Brilliant... a rollicking good read. <em>No Good About Goodbye</em> is an utterly charming teenage LGBTQ falling-in-love adventure. -C.S. Holmes <em>Indiereader</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Ian Racalmuto can handle assassins bombs and bullets... but harboring a crush on his best friend? Stopping world war is easier.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>15-year-old Ian Racalmuto's life is in ruins after an embassy raid in Algiers. His mother a vodka-drunk spy is dead. His brother a diplomat has vanished. And he's lost a cremation urn containing a smartphone that could destroy the world.</p><p><br></p><p>Forced to live with his cantankerous grandfather in Philadelphia Ian has seven days to find his brother and secure the phone-all while adjusting to life in a troubled urban school and dodging assassins sent to kill him.</p><p><br></p><p>Ian finds an ally in William Xiang an undocumented immigrant grappling with poverty a strict family and abusive classmates. They make a formidable team but when Ian's feelings toward Will grow bombs bullets and crazed bounty hunters don't hold a candle to his fear of his friend finding out. Will it wreck their relationship roll up their mission and derail a heist they've planned at the State Department?</p><p><br></p><p>Like a dime store pulp adventure of the past No Good About Goodbye is an incautious funny coming-of-age tale for mature teens and adult readers.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Rot Gut Pulp: <em>Entertainment not Genius.™</em></strong></p>