Gascoyne

A delightfully absurd blend of crime, comedy, and social commentary: ';A wild novel of black humor... Wonderful' (The New York Times). Meet Gascoyne, a man who spends whole weeks in his car, eating, sleeping, and conducting his business via mobile phone. Gascoyne has found a new preoccupationhunting down the killer of his business associate (last seen slithering away from the crime scene in a tree-sloth costume), and finding out how the southern California megalopolis has suddenly, despite all his power and prestige, slipped out of his grasp. ';A mix of Sam Spade played by Inspector Clouseau plus Howard Hughes played by Dr. Strangeloveor all of them played by Bill Murray. In 1966 Gascoyne does what everybody does now: spends most of his time in his car talking on the phone... Our least-known great comic novel, a novel as prophetic as it is hilarious.' The Austin Chronicle