It’s 1982. His name, Steve Witowski, is an alias. Once he was a counterculture hero. Now he’s a failed songwriter, running from the law. And he’s just become a killer, stumbling on a woman being attacked by what seemed to be the strongest and most blood-thirsty wino in California. Steve’s Life is a chuckle or two short of a load of laughs.
He should keep moving. But the woman, Victoria, is beyond stunning. Oddly, she’s recently bought a decrepit old church with a sordid past. Will Steve stay and help? Of course. Even as the face of the man he just killed materializes on his arm: and Victoria becomes just a part of a mystery he can’t unravel. Even as he’s looting the decomposing dead for the secrets of a self-proclaimed sorcerer. Until he’s trapped in a nightmare of fire, blood and death. The Sorcerer’s spells and rituals can’t actually work, of course. But then they do. And unknown to Steve, a demon is growing desperate.
We’ve got 15 raves from prominent authors, most of the bestsellers. Here are just three.
“Wholly fresh and original. Wickedly funny . . . a hot, sweaty, magic- and murder-infused rollercoaster of a story . . . I loved it.” – David Moody, author of Hater and Autumn.
“If Barry Maher set out to write a book consumed with mayhem, peopled with [characters] in desperate circumstances . . . and make it a story so compulsively readable that you’ll carry it to the kitchen in the middle of the night while you’re waiting for your tea kettle to boil, he did, and this is it. The Great Dick is pretty great fiction.” – Jacquelyn Mitchard, No.1 New York Times bestselling author of The Good Son and The Deep End of the Ocean, which was the inaugural selection of the Oprah Winfrey Book Club.
“Barry Maher has got a wicked voice and a razor-sharp tongue to match. He’s found a countercultural cad for the ages with his anti-hero Steve Witowski. Don’t be surprised to hear that name echoed alongside Raoul Duke, Old Bull Lee or Mark Renton in the future . . . a great book.” – Clay McLeod Chapman, author of The Remaking and Whisper Down the Lane. Co-author of the film, The Boy.