1Q1A Christopher Moore Noir

What this episode covers

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Christopher Moore, Author of Noir published just last week by William Morrow. Christopher is the author of over fifteen novels including Lamb, A Dirty Job and You Suck. He has been called “A very sick man, in the best sense of the word” and “The greatest satirist since Jonathan Swift”. Noir is a tough book to describe. Our protagonist is Sammy “two-toes” Tiffin a bartender with a past and then a future (hopefully) that contains one Stilton (the cheese) a knock-out blond bombshell whose picture is on the cover and on the title page of alternating chapters. But things don’t go as planned. Sal, the bar’s owner shows up dead, an Air Force General has some urgent business that falls on Sammy’s shoulders. At the same time we have some visitors from Roswell New Mexico, a secret society and Sammy and his pals, a Chinese sidekick, and a nasty but lovable kid and a black Mamba, (a semi-reliable narrator) all of whom join various other “MIB” types and loads of other fiends and friends to complete a roster of characters, who in this Noir book, coupled with the screwball comedy and mixed with the satire that Christopher so often provides us with lead to hijinks in this delightful romp.

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