Publisher's Synopsis
Enjoy the series Hollywood scouts describe as "Tarantino directs Dumb and Dumber."Max and Luie may be dumb as dirt and even less sexy, but they're tough. They're so unkillable a series of bad guys and worse guys keep blackmailing them into a series of unfortunate events that culminates in a gunfight full of farm animals, and that's after a bank robbing spree with a brand-new friend. From Chapter One: Mr. Arjanoupolis might have never driven before, but he handled the car pretty well. I got bored after the first ten minutes of not dying in a horrible motor vehicle accident, so I started looking out the window. We passed a bunch of crows picking at what was left of either a big dog or a small deer."Hey, Luie. What's a bunch of crows called?""I don't know. A flock?""Are you talking about collective nouns?" Mr. Arjanoupolis asked. He was staring intently at the road ahead, his hands at 2 and 10 o'clock."No," said Luie. "We're talking about how a bunch of lions is a pride, but a bunch of deer is a herd.""That's collective nouns. I teach English over at City College. A group of crows is a murder.""A murder?" I asked."Yes. A murder.""Because they're black?" Luie asked. "That's kind of racist, isn't it?"Mr. Arjanoupolis started a coughing fit that slid the whole car across three lanes of traffic. Nobody hit us, but everyone started honking. Luie had him take the next exit and parallel park in front of a little strip mall."How about murders?" I asked. "Is it a crow of murders?""It doesn't work like that," Mr. Arjanoupolis said as he pulled up on the emergency brake."Wait here one minute. Leave the engine running." Luie got out of the car and walked into a payday loan outfit at the near corner of the strip mall."Fuck," I said, but not loud enough for Mr. Arjanoupolis to hear.--In the hilarious tradition of Joe Lansdale, Norma Partridge, Christopher Moore, A. Lee Martinez, and Warren Ellis, these short and punchy stories will have you laughing fit to fart.
