Monomania, Mon Amour: "A fate worse than death. A crime worse than murder." - Paperback

by A. D. Stranik (Author)

The Resurrection was Jesus' greatest miracle. But Peggy Mae Deveroux answers to a higher power, and it tells her the Resurrection was nothing more than the Devil's masterpiece. Like a Star-Age Boadicea armed with a God-given prophecy and a movie camera, she comes bearing a new gospel for a wanting world.

'Hollywood had not gone well for Peggy Mae Deveroux. The funk of failure clung to her like a dying ape, and by the time she emerged from the arrivals lounge at Idlewild, it began to stink like one.'

1957: 'Queen of The Pin-Ups, ' Peggy Deveroux disappears from the face of the earth. Thirty years later, she returns with a special message for the world.

Retired 'showbiz trouble-shooter' Leonard Borg is fixed on ensuring that the world never gets that memo.

Marco Mascini-a movie-obsessed hitman with a penchant for 'damsels in distress'-gets tangled up in Deveroux and Borg's reignited psychodrama.

- Just what is Deveroux's 'special message for the world'?
- Just how has Deveroux's resurrection raised Borg from his living death?
- Just where in Deveroux and Borg's crazy chase does Mascini fit in and how will it make him the hero of all his dreams?

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "A gonzo pilgrimage into the soul of the modern mythos."
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "A jaw-dropping, two-fisted, white-knuckle ride that breathes new life into 21st-century pulp fiction. Sin-sational!"
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Loved this book. It's hard-boiled pulp fiction that reminds me in parts of Tarantino..."
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Written in Panavision. Great book!"
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "The descriptive skill is bold and unashamed! Every episode is rammed full of beauties that make you shout for more. Our time needs more novels like this!"
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "A divinely dark and twisty rollercoaster of a read. Definitely not for the prudish or fainthearted, but if you have an open mind and a strong stomach, buckle up and enjoy. You're in for a fast ride!"
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Stranik paints word pictures in this compelling novel of devotion, despair, and adventure. Brutal and fun."
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Curiously dark, bolshy, amusing, and entertaining. Not for the faint of heart, and it was definitely the most raunchy book I've ever read! Sex, murder, and scenes told as if straight from a movie make it a riveting read.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Sexy, raw, and bloody. Gives Tarantino a run for his money."
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐"Revel in the wonderful murky madness this author created that blew my mind!
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Twisted and unpredictable!"
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I devoured it in a few days and just couldn't put it down."

"Stranik is a powerful wordsmith who is, despite this being his debut novel, already making an impact in the literary world."
(Inside Time)

"You wrote this? I love it already!"
(Fran Lebowitz)

"Hotter than a $10 Saturday Night Special... and just as deadly."
(Noel 'Razor' Smith-author of A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun)

"A cross between Dash Hammett and Hunter S. Thompson."
(Judi Moore-author of Is Death Really Necessary?)