Book cover for I'm Dying Here: A Comedy of Bad Manners by Damien Broderick and Rory Barnes

I'm Dying Here

A Comedy of Bad Manners

2012 Released
210 Pages
4-5 Hours
Audiobook Unavailable
Hardback Unavailable
Wildside PressISBN 9781434449016

R. Doubting Thomas Perdue, tough Aussie former P.I. and jailbird, is in trouble, and it can only get worse. Tom's *Feng shui* consultancy implodes when some bastard drives a Mack truck through his heritage office. Fatal things keep happening to his phones. And who's been blabbing about his racehorse-doping past? The love of his life has made a ten-year vow of celibacy to the Virgin Mary. Tom's Goth daughter's girlfriend's obese sister has vanished, extremely foul play suspected. Meanwhile, an unusual racing camel named Nile Fever has become an animal of interest to the Australian Federal Police, and Tom is up to his neck in the middle of the mess. I'm Dying Here is a darkly comic crime caper that leaves no taboo, or cell phone, unviolated. "This is a comic, crazy, original crime novel. You won't find another one like it this year, or, more likely, ever." Bill Crider. "What it reminds me of, powerfully, is a Donald Westlake comic novel about Dormunder. If you did smart, funny caper novels, I suspect you'll like this one as much as I do." Todd Mason. "Think anything Joseph Wambaugh, and then make it much more funny, and you start to get an idea of how much fun this is to read." Amazon five-star review.

Damien Broderick

Damien Broderick is an Australian writer, editor and critical theorist who lives in San Antonio, Texas.

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Rory Barnes

Rory Barnes was born in London in 1946, but has lived most of his life in Australia. He studied Philosophy at Monash University before working in various capacities in secondary education. In 1976 he took up a fellowship at Stanford University's Creative Writing Centre and has been a professional writer and teacher of writing ever since. He has written several novels for both adults and teenagers (many of them with Damien Broderick). Barnes has lived in Adelaide for the last 25 years. He is married with two sons. His website is at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/rory.barnes

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