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The Killing Song
The Killing Song
The Killing Song
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Would you risk everything for one shot at immortality?

 

1996, the American Midwest: Zach Coleman is beginning to suspect the nineties aren't all they're cracked up to be. His fledgling private investigation career is sinking fast, his band just broke up, and even his boring day job isn't paying off.

 

But when a chance audition with a long-lost, legendary rock star leads to the opportunity of a lifetime, will Zach turn his back on everything he's known and pray both his worlds don't burn down around his ears?

 

A thrilling tale few will ever forget, this twist-filled narrative from A. J. Payler (master of modern fiction behind Bank Error in Your Favor and Terror Next Door) vividly resuscitates the smoke-saturated culture of the late nineties, smashes it up against the ruins of sixties radicalism, and gleefully deconstructs the remains into a thing of terrifying beauty.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJun 20, 2021
ISBN9798201214791

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