Born Slippy

"A highly literary and always engaging 21st century noir... Born Slippy confronts contemporary questions about the relativity of evil that no one can dodge."

— Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick and After Kathy Acker

An instant, finely wrought story of friendship, ingenuity, and blithe evil. Lutz has the seven deadly sins nailed and rethought for our 2020 world. You’ve got to dig this book!”

— James Ellroy, author of L.A. Confidential

“What a pleasure, to sink under the comedic spell of Tom Lutz’s debut novel! The perfect book for a dreary day — a gleeful, twisty tale of an unlikely friendship. I’d put it on the shelf between Tom Robbins and Martin Amis, if a place can be cleared there.” 

— Janet Fitch, author of The Revolution of Marina M. and Chimes of a Lost Cathedral

“A smart and propulsive wild ride from the genteel mansions of Hartford, Connecticut to the more louche corners of Asia. Lutz’s debut is a technicolor noir, a smart, literary and literate thriller — like the love child of Elmore Leonard and Graeme Greene. Original and deft and not to be missed.”

— Ivy Pochoda, author of Wonder Valley and Visitation Street

The kind of novel a globetrotting Graham Greene might have written had he lived to trot around our contempo, gone-to-hell globe — now divided into neo-imperialist sociopathic zillionaires, and the rest of us. Born Slippy is smart, dark, funny and, best of all, what used to be called a real page-turner. You’ll love this book.”

— Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight, I, Fatty, and Old Guy Dad