The News Clown

Hunter S. Thompson eat your dead heart out! (Phil Shoenfelt author of Junkie Love) Thor Garcia has written a satirical novel that brings to mind the best bits of John Kennedy Tooles A Confederacy of Dunces; the novels and short stories of Charles Bukowski; Bret Easton Ellis American Psycho and the gonzo journalism of Hunter S. Thompson... (Chris Crawford BODY) Its hard to imagine writing more energetic than this! (The Prague Post) Fueled by prodigious amounts of alcohol and tobacco sex and drugs this narrative skips along from one bizarre episode to the next in the tortuous life of Thor a young man whose dreams of a literary career have been sidetracked into an undemanding job as a news clown for a small wire service in the crime-infested back alleys of Bay City. Meanwhile as Thor struggles with his inner demons the national news clowns are cheering on President Wolfgang G. Mnung as he threatens a Middle Eastern dictator who may have stockpiled as many as 4000 PlayStation video game units from which according to sources he might fashion a crude supercomputer to control weapons of untold devastation. A flashy satirical style keeps the narrative fresh entertaining and eminently readable throughout. (Publishers Weekly) Hunter S. Thompson meets Russ Meyers Under the Valley of the Supervixens meets Daft Punk - wearing a press pass and a smiley badge to a San Francisco gangbang. (Goodreads) Thor Garcias monumental iconoclastic novel News Clown was a finalist in the 2009 Amazon.com Breakthrough Novel Award.