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It's Christmas Eve, 1979, in Wichita, and Charlie Arglist, a crooked lawyer and strip-club owner, is drunkenly making the rounds before he blows town for good. Getting progressively drunker and deeper in trouble, Charlie needs to drop off a photograph of a local official in a compromising position and steal some drug money. Before it's all over, a lot of people are going to wind up dead.
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"A funny, craftily malevolent first novel, an ice-pick-sharp crime story that sustains its film noir energy all the way to an outrageous whammy of an ending."
New York Times
"[An] astonishing debut novel from a writer who manages to put a funny, modernist spin on a piece of our noir past…"
Chicago Tribune
"A deliciously nasty little book…Phillips writes in a spare, straightforward prose style that's perfectly suited for the Midwestern setting. It also allows for flashes of wicked wit."
San Francisco Chronicle
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