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The Exploding Memoir
The Exploding Memoir
The Exploding Memoir
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by Johnny Strike

A mystery-fantasy thriller by the author of Name of the Stranger and Murder in the Medina.

Eddie Knox skips Pennsylvania before the local authorities can send him to reform school. After he settles in San Francisco’s Chinatown, the mysterious Dr. Kublar takes him under his wing. What seems a benign gesture, gifting him with a job running "errands," plunges him into a quest for an ancient stone tablet with powerful occult secrets. Now Eddie is the unwitting courier, cautiously threading his way between the authorities and the local tongs, against the backdrop of San Francisco’s underground music scene.

“These are real maps of real places. That’s what marks the artist — he’s been there and has brought it back.” — William S. Burroughs on Ports of Hell

“A perfect harmony of street rhythm and noir shadow as Strike’s anti-hero careens through the end of the sixties with cynical style. Colliding somewhere between Camus and Jim Carroll, Strike’s memoir shows us the real back alleys of San Francisco during its zeitgeist.” — Tom Pitts, author of Hustle, American Static

“After settling in San Francisco’s Chinatown, Eddie Knox is taken under the wing of the mysterious Dr. Kublar, who sends him on a series of covert missions involving an ancient stone tablet that holds powerful occult secrets. The story moves along at a propulsive rock ’n roll clip, pulling us through a chain of bizarre plot twists that draw on elements of vintage crime and science fiction, shot through with sex, drugs and mystery, and splattered like blood from a syringe against the backdrop of San Francisco’s underground music scene in the early ’70s. Like a well-thumbed crime thriller, once you pick up The Exploding Memoir you won’t be able to put it down.” — Mike Stax, Ugly Things magazine

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 14, 2018
ISBN9780463748145
The Exploding Memoir
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Johnny Strike

Johnny Strike is an American writer, who William S. Burroughs praised with: “These are real maps of real places. That is what makes the artist. He has been there and brought it back”Headpress published Strike’s first novel in 2004, Ports of Hell. He has interviewed Paul Bowles, Mohamed Choukri, Herbert Huncke and traveled, with extended stays in Morocco, Mexico and Thailand, where he set his fiction.His writing has appeared in Ambit Magazine, Headpress Journal, Si Señor, and Pulp Adventures. His short story collection, A Loud Humming Came From Above, was published by Rudos and Rubes in 2008. Richard Sala, a popular artist, provided the accompanying illustrations.He is also known as a songwriter, guitarist and singer for the proto-punk band Crime, based in San Francisco.Naked Beast is his latest music endeavor with Guitars and Bongos. His novel Murder in the Medina follows another Tangier mystery, Name of the Stranger, both published by Bold Venture Press.

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