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Tod A is best known as the leader of the ‘world-punk’ music group Firewater. He left New York City in 2003 to travel in Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent. Banging the Monkey, Tod’s first novel, was inspired by events he witnessed and stories he collected along the way. Mr A currently hangs his hat in Istanbul.
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Banging the Monkey, the debut novel from 'world-punk' rocker Tod A, was released May 1, 2019, through Flagrante Delicto Press / BookBaby.
SYNOPSIS
Disaffected writer Mark O’Kane is in a downward spiral. His last novel tanked. His wife left him. And his drinking is out of control. So when a chance meeting with enigmatic businessman Frank Fochs leads to a cushy job on the tropical island of Madu, it sounds like Mark’s salvation: he can finally write his comeback novel and set his life on a brighter path.
But when Frank disappears, Mark is left holding the bag for his boss’s shady business dealings. And after a corpse washes up in the local lagoon, Mark may even be charged with Frank’s murder. As he skirts the border between regret and desire, Mark discovers that the demons of his past are not so easily outrun, and that paradise comes with a price.
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Banging the Monkey is for anyone who has ever dreamed of chucking it all and starting over. Debut author Tod A injects pulp noir with a punk prose rhythm to weave a darkly comic tale about life at the end of the American Century.
