Bad Memory

Description:

For a fat fee, Z dresses as a chicken and harasses lawyers until they respond to her employers’ unreturned phone calls. She can’t remember ever doing anything else. Indeed, she can’t remember anything that happened more than four months ago. That isn’t a problem until a mysterious Mr. Wilson starts using increasingly gruesome threats to compel her to kill Abbey Cotton, the blonde liberal-basher who has become an embarrassment to Wilson’s rightwing movement. Though Z discovers that she has a wide range of assassin’s skills (which she cannot remember acquiring), she refuses Wilson’s offer and becomes a hunted woman as well as a haunted one. Are her recurring daydream images ill-defined snippets of memory or something far worse? As Wilson’s men close in, can she find a way to recover her past, kill and discredit Wilson, and find romance? Or is she too chicken to carry it through?

A must read for anyone who wants to understand the true hidden menace of international terror, to read a darn good thriller or to have a couple of hundred mean-spirited belly laughs. Not for those who cannot afford the cover price.

Previously Anticipated Advance Praise:

“This stunning new thriller provides a resonant meditation on the American dream, while raising the beguiling question who exactly is co-author Zahirah Abdullah? A symphonic masterpiece, Bad Memory, is apocalyptic, brilliant, and evocative of the entire spectrum of human emotions. Oh, and did I mention that it’s laugh-out-loud funny and unput-downable?”
- Rob Kahn, New York, New York

"It's been a long time since I've read such a stirring, thriller that has made me go through so many emotions. A serious page-turner with a sense of humor.”
- Spencer Knoll, Cambridge, Massachusetts

“A witty, angry, roman á clef that so surpasses Chan’s previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope as to make it clear that he is a shill for Zahirah Abdullah.”
- Z, Somewhere in the South Atlantic

“There’s nothing sexier than a stone-cold killer with a dynamite body and a nitroglycerin sense of humor.”
- Name withheld, The White House, Washington, D.C.

“While Zahirah Abdullah certainly shouldn’t be tortured, a little waterboarding would do her a world of good, particularly if afterwards she is drawn and quartered, burned at the stake, disemboweled, and mutilated in public. As for that little shit Chan…”
- Richard Cheney, c/o A Bunker, Somewhere in Wyoming, United States of America.