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The Man Who Wouldn't Die: A Novel

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"HBO's Silicon Valley meets The Big Sleep" (Mark Maskell Smith): A hilarious neo-noir send-up of Silicon Valley, penned by an anonymous insider.

ā€œDOES FOR SILICON VALLEY WHAT CARL HIAASEN DID FOR FLORIDA.ā€ ā€”Tim Dorsey

ā€œTHE MAN WHO WOULDNā€™T DIE IS DASHIELL HAMMETT 2.0: THE CLASSIC HARDBOILED DETECTIVE NOVEL, UPDATED FOR 21ST CENTURY SILICON VALLEY AND MADE HILARIOUS.ā€ ā€”Brad Parks

Silicon Valley scion Captain Don Donogue is dead under mysterious circumstances. In fact, he mightā€™ve well have been murdered. Just ask Captain Don himself. Heā€™s been sending messages about his suspicious death from beyond the grave. Yep, heā€™s been tweeting from the afterlife. Or so it seems.

Could life-after-death be Silicon Valleyā€™s latest innovation? Our bodies die but our souls and social media accounts are eternal? This is the mystery that confronts the only sane person left in a region gone mad with greed, William Fitzgerald. Fitch. Heā€™s a world-class detective, tough, stoic, carries a big fist and a flip phone. Heā€™s a bad fit for Silicon Valley, where the law firms have drive-thru windows manned by barristeristas (who serve instant coffee and instant patents); attractive women arenā€™t MILFā€™s but TELFs (Tech Executives Iā€™d Like To Fund); and couples are so anxious to get into the best free-play kindergartens that they get on the waiting list as soon as they freeze their sperm and eggs for later use.

One day, a woman knocks on Fitchā€™s door. Sheā€™s got a handful of cash and a wild story: She says that her father was Captain Don, or is Captain Don. He was killed, or maybe not. Heā€™s tweeting from beyond. Fitch takes the case and goes into the belly of the valley, discovering that life and death, well, sometimes theyā€™re just another transactionā€¦.

Original, clever, and hysterical, The Man Who Wouldnā€™t Die is the Carl Hiaasen of Silicon Valley and neo-noir at its unforgettable best.


Verteller: Kevin T. Collins
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