Kiss The Devil Goodnight Author:Jonathan Woods The Story. — — Bill Derringer, Yale dropout and Iraq war vet goes on a trip toFlorida with his wife Edie and their kids to visit Edie's Aunt Ida. — — Turns out this trip was never going to be an ordinary family vacation. — — Drawn into a botched robbery Bill is lucky to escape with his life andas his wife and her aunt disappear to Mexico with th... more »e money, Bill is caught bythe cops and goes to prison.
Five and a half years later Bill is paroled and is torn between adesire to reunite with his kids and his quest to track down Aunt Ida and Edieand meter out some revenge.
So begins this road trip crime novel that weaves its way from Atlantato Mexico City and winds up in the wilds of the Yucatan jungle.
This darkly funny, high octane, neo-pulp tale is a search for sex,love, revenge, the meaning of life and a suitcase lost by William Burroughs.
Praise for Kiss The Devil Goodnight.
"Jonathan Woods' Kiss the Devil Goodnight,is debauched, deadpan, and inebriating--the confessions of a comedic psychopath.Wild fun! You'll never take sex or death seriously again. Buy this book!"--VickiHendricks, author of Miami Purity, Voluntary Madness and the Edgar Awardfinalist Cruel Poetry
"Jonathan Woods' Kiss the Devil Goodnightis a street-smart, fast-paced and deliciously cynical tale that races like an18-wheeler with blown brakes from Florida's badlands to the dark heart ofMexico. The story it tells of sex, money and revenge is as steamy and dangerousas a crocodile-ridden swamp."
--Stephen Amidon, author of Human Capital(basis of the Oscar-nominated Italian film of the same title), Security and TheReal Justice
"What a wonderful novel. I flat out lovedKiss the Devil Goodnight ... I had a pure surge of delight on reading it, it'sfun, fast, furious, frantic and oh so fantastically written. A rare treat."--KenBruen, two-time Shamus Award-winning author of The Guards, London Boulevard,Blitz and Purgatory
"Kiss the Devil Goodnight is a frenzied andsprawling masterpiece that blasts through the boundaries of southern-gothic.Featuring one of the most memorable anti-heroes in literature, this novelcements Jonathan Woods' reputation as one of the truly original voices in crimefiction."
--Jon Bassoff, author of Corrosion, FactoryTown and The Incurables
"The pervy noir thriller Kiss the Devil Good Night will makeyou thankful that your family isn't criminally insane. Lowbrow and brilliant."--NewYork Magazine
"Kissthe Devil Good Night is a hell of a ride. Buy yourself a ticket now."
--Madison Smartt Bell, National Book Award andPEN/Faulkner Award finalist and author of Doctor Sleep and AllSouls Rising
"[A] picaresque story of antic insanity...Fansof offbeat noir will find a lot to like."--Publishers Weekly« less