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“Hilarious, hardboiled, and full of heart. Decker's a genius.”
—Cara Hoffman, author of RUIN
“It’s Inherent Vice meets Black Flag. A punk twist to the noir genre. This Rancid Mill is well-written, entertaining, and in your face! It’s sure to be an instant classic!”
—Russ Lippitt, author of F.T.W. Rise of the Anarchy March
"A neo-noir with a mohawk: This Rancid Mill masterfully combines wit, humour and suspense into a dark, and sometimes wonderfully ridiculous page-turner. Alex Damage is a riot, whose narrative begs an encore and a sneaky glass of bourbon to taste."
—Vanessa C. Hawkins, award-winning author of A Child to Cry Over
“Philip Marlowe meets his match in Kyle Decker’s punk noir detective Alex Damage. Set in the LA punk scene of the 80s, this dark mystery crackles with gritty scenes and wry dialogue. Damage drinks his booze neat and takes a few for the girl, just like any hard-boiled detective. Chandler would have approved.”
—Catherine O’Connell, author of The Last Night Out
“Alex Damage is, in his own words, ‘a private investigator, of sorts.’ Which is like saying Gnossos Pappadopoulis, the protagonist of Farina’s 1960s classic Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me is a college student. Gnossos unforgettably wended his picaresque way through a crazed 1960s psychedelic landscape. Alex Damage lives in—and wryly observes and obsessively comments on—our own not psychedelic but no less crazy times. What Been Down So Long was to my generation, Kyle Decker’s This Rancid Mill will become to contemporary readers. It’s smart, it’s funny, it’s memorable. It’s not wrong to call this a brilliant novel.”
—Mort Castle, three-time Bram Stoker Award winner and author of Knowing When to Die: Collected Stories
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