Bøker av Jim Yoakum

Meet Carter Kovac, disgraced art dealer turned reluctant, bumbling private detective. After inheriting his famous father's detective agency, he immediately becomes entangled in a mysterious web of intrigue and murder--and the police think he's the culprit. Or they'd at least like to pin it on him, as that'd save a lot of time. Along the way, he fumbles through mysterious deaths, misunderstandings, and wild goose chases, all while being pursued by the police, a fortune cookie company, a 15-year-old hit man, a phantom killer from the Chinese Assassination Corporation, and two disgruntled police detectives. He finds himself in a dangerous life-or-death game of cat-and-mouse, where the question becomes: Is he the cat or the mouse?

Set during the Great Depression, The Christians tells the story of two psychopathic Bible salesmen who murder in the name of God. Hot on their trail is a former Texas Ranger and US Bureau of Investigation (pre-FBI) agent, John Stoddard Pyle, a man who knows no mercy, and who does not know exactly who he is chasing as there is no apparent motive, and virtually no clues. It encompasses themes as ancient as the Bible, and as bloodily contemporary as this morning's headlines.

Before Derek Christian became the confused hero, pawn of the universe, and reluctant cosmic adventurer of the Intergalactic novels, he was a simple copywriter at a radio station in Atlanta, WRFA: Radio Free America. This story tells how his writer's block set off a domino effect of murder and cosmic intrigue as The Fear chases him to his breaking point, and how he manages to escape into a world not of his own making. Part murder mystery, part science fiction, horror, black comedy, and fantasy, RADIO FREE AMERICA is psychotronic journey into the mind and soul of one man versus corporate America, as well as a sad farewell to the last days of rock 'n' roll radio. Rock is dead. Long live rock.

IN SPACE, NO ONE WILL ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS...One day, in 1994, just as he was poised to land a major cover story in Rolling Stone magazine, music journalist, Derek Christian, is whisked away by a mysterious man with multiple arms and tentacles, named Kent, and deposited in a luxury hotel called the Intergalactic, which is populated by beings and creatures from across the galaxy. No one remembers why they are there, who is in charge, or what exactly the hotel is. Is it a massive spaceship parked in stationary orbit on the outskirts of GN-z11? An Astral Plane of Heaven? A place where souls go between incarnations? The heavenly paradise where Osiris rules? A liminal plane located somewhere in Arizona, possibly near Tucson? A hologram? A cosmic bus depot? All Derek knows is that he feels a prisoner, and he wants answers, no matter how many gala luncheons and Champagne buffets the hotel throws. And with the help of some friends: a beautiful humanadroid named Desree, a wisecracking robot named Drillbit, a crackpot polymath named Anonymous, a self-satisfied rock star named Vim Starbucket, Koalemos, the Greek god of stupidity--and the mysterious Kent--he is determined to find those answers (although he probably won't).

Set in Depression-era Savannah, Georgia, THE FRENCH STRANGER tells the story of Fred Dumas--a woman's pleasure specialist--who unknowingly kills Bunny Meyers, and is being hunted by two hit men set on him by her husband, a wealthy man who is running for mayor. This culminates into a cascade of dizzying absurdities that touch on a wide range of topics including: quantum and time theory, reincarnation, parallel universes, nirvana, baseball, World War I, chicken boxing, voodoo, Chick-O-Sticks, and Ragnarök. It's a richly layered meditation on change, time, purpose, identity, comedy, and the very nature of existence itself-plus, it answers the age-old question: if man made the chicken, did the chicken also make man?

When a gold coin heist turns out badly a pair of idiotic crooks hook-up with some moronic thieves (and a movie star) in order to steal the secret KFC chicken recipe. Along the way they reveal (among many other things) the connection between Gilligan's Island and the devil, what Salman Rushdie and Elvis have in common with Col. Sanders, why Betty was never a vitamin and what Bootsy Collins does in his spare time. It also deal with the whole "why did the chicken cross the road" conundrum.

In the final book of the thrilling "Bar at the Intergalactic Hotel" trilogy we find our heroes wrapping up loose ends, starting new beginnings and, for some, embarking on mind-blowing journeys that will forever alter the universe as we know it--all if they can get a government grant. How does the Ven-Do-Over machine rewrite history? Can one have too many appetizers? How can a bikeologist help save the universe? What, exactly, IS a bikeologist? These, and other mind-numbing questions will, perhaps, be explained in this exciting grouping of words that constitutes a book!