Book description
Benny Bunt is an ex-speed freak, a helplessly dominated husband, a
misfit on the sun-bleached, fog-drenched streets of Southern
California, and a barfly who makes pocket money snitching on his
friends. You'll like him.
When Benny comes across Gus 'Mad Dog' Miller, wearing a neclace of
human ears and throwing his Vietnam war medals against the wall of his
favourite bar, he knows they're going to be firm friends. But soon he
finds himself at the centre o fa mysterious double murder in the lonly
Mojave Desert...
Snitch Jacket is at once a detective story whose deeper
mysteries are the nature of friendship, machismo and identity, and
also a scabrously comic send-up of noir fiction.
Snitch Jacket was a finalist at the Edgar Awards for Best
First Novel.
Christopher Goffard is a staff writer at the
Los Angeles Times
. In 2007 he was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in
Feature Writing for his work for the
St Petersburg Times
.
Snitch Jacket
was a finalist at the Edgar Awards for Best First Novel. He lives with
his family in Southern California.
