No Good About Goodbye

A 2022 IndieBRAG medallion recipientBrilliant... a rollicking good read. No Good About Goodbye is an utterly charming teenage LGBTQ falling-in-love adventure. -C.S. Holmes IndiereaderIan Racalmuto can handle assassins bombs and bullets... but harboring a crush on his best friend? Stopping world war is easier.15-year-old Ian Racalmutos 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 hes lost a cremation urn containing a smartphone that could destroy the world.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.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 Ians feelings toward Will grow bombs bullets and crazed bounty hunters dont hold a candle to his fear of his friend finding out. Will it wreck their relationship roll up their mission and derail a heist theyve planned at the State Department?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.Rot Gut Pulp: Entertainment not Genius.(TM)