You Must Have A Death Wish

How do you go from hustler to hitman? When Moonie Sykes gets offered a meeting with Roberto 'Gato' Padilla, he thinks it's about moving some drugs. Turns out, Gato is offering a big payday for an even bigger job - kill some real estate prick named Larry Aces.Sure Moonie's done people wrong before, just never so wrong they ended up dead. Call it moving on up...This brutal noir sketches a world so crazy that only a rookie hitman could bless it with sanity. In You Must Have a Death Wish, prolific pulp writer Matt Phillips (Countdown, Know Me from Smoke, Three Kinds of Fool) crafts a tale of wretched violence and suitably inelegant redemption.Praise for Matt Phillips"I can't get enough of Matt Phillips these days, and hope a shit-ton of other readers will soon feel the same." - Anthony Neil Smith, author of All the Young Warriors and Yellow Medicine"Phillips is a writer who should be on everyone's radar for his lean, taut prose, authentic dialogue, and mastery of noir." - Sarah Chen, author of Cleaning Up Finn"Matt Phillips speaks fluently the language of the dispossessed... His whiskey-soaked prose can at times be as slick as a man slinging snake-oil, and other times as brutal as a baseball bat to the head." - Eryk Pruitt, author of What We Reckon and Hashtag"Matt Phillips is fast establishing himself as one of my favorite contemporary authors..." - Col's Criminal Library


Genre: Mystery