Skank Ape City

Skank Ape City
By Tony Arnold
Deep in the rotting heart of the Everglades sits a city that shouldn't exist — a swamp-choked sprawl of vacant storefronts, unlicensed food carts, Sasquatch cartel enforcers, and Scientonomy missionaries peddling salvation to junkies. This is where washed-up former undercover operative Bryce gets summoned by a mysterious "Agent P.W." for a reunion he never asked for — and drops straight back into the deep end of a world run by drug queens, double-crossing handlers, extraterrestrial bureaucrats, and a "shadow state" that makes the deep state look like a PTA meeting.
Tangled up with the drop-dead-gorgeous cartel Empress Servicia Pubico, hunted by a Quebecois fugitive with a self-mutilated face and a mail-order martial arts empire, and haunted by conspiracies stretching from postwar Marseilles to Cold War Langley to whatever's crawling around in the palmetto scrub — Bryce has to figure out who's using him, who's hunting him, and whether Skank Ape City will let him leave at all.
Equal parts Hunter S. Thompson fever dream, pulp spy thriller, and gonzo Florida noir, Skank Ape City is a savage, hilarious, relentlessly inventive descent into a world where the conspiracies are real, the apes are addicted, and nothing — nothing — is as it seems.
If you like your fiction dark, deranged, and dripping with swamp-rot satire, welcome to Skank Ape City. Population: everyone you shouldn't trust.

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