Secret Dead Men
(Point Blank Press, February 2005)
The year is 1976.
Detective Del Farmer is investigating a murder.
But the usual suspects are all in his head.
Del Farmer isn’t your ordinary hardboiled private eye. Instead of collecting fingerprints and clues, he collects souls of the recently dead. And his latest dead guy, federal witness Brad Larsen, might just be the key to destroying Farmer’s longtime nemesis, The Association.
Of course, Farmer is sadly mistaken. Because Larsen isn’t offering up the goods. An FBI agent unstuck in time is toying with him. A mysterious couple keeps trying to kill him. And another job—a mundane babysitting gig that pays the bills—is threatening to steer him way off course into a violent hell of sexual deceit, fractured identities and cheap apartment toilets.
praise for secret dead men
“Believe in nothing, believe in Hell, believer in the Brain Hotel… Secret Dead Men is the most uplifting, hilarious, moving novel since Catcher in the Rye.” –Ken Bruen, author of the Shamus Award-winning The Guards
“Filled with fascinating creations and memorable scenes. [Secret Dead Men] takes the traditional forms and puts a unique spin on them, reflecting the mind of an author with both new ideas and an idiosyncratic personality.” –Philadelphia Inquirer
“Fresh and idiosyncratic… Offbeat, quirky and confident, revealing Swierczynski as a talented newcomer.” –Chicago Sun-Times
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