Bad Monkeys
A Novel
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3.9 • 220 Ratings
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
“Bad Monkeys has wit and imagination by the bucketload. . . . Buy it, read it, memorize then destroy it. There are eyes everywhere.”
—Chris Moore, bestselling author of A Dirty Job and Lamb
Jane Charlotte has been arrested for murder. She tells police that she is a member of a secret organization devoted to fighting evil; her division is called the Department for the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons—“Bad Monkeys” for short. This confession earns Jane a trip to the jail’s psychiatric wing, where a doctor attempts to determine whether she is lying, crazy, or playing a different game altogether.
Clever and gripping, full of unexpected twists and turns, teasing existential musings, and captivating prose, Bad Monkeys unfolds at lightning speed, taking readers to another realm of imagination.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this clever SF thriller from Ruff (Fool on the Hill), almost everyone is a bad monkey of some kind, but only Jane Charlotte is a self-confessed member of "The Department for the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons." Or is she? In a series of sessions with a psychotherapist in the Las Vegas County Jail "nut wing," Jane tells the story of her early life in San Francisco and her assimilation into the "Bad Monkeys," an organization devoted to fighting evil. Crazy or sane, Jane is still a murderer, whether she used a weapon like the NC gun, which kills someone using Natural Causes, or more prosaic weaponry. Still, nothing is quite what it seems as Jane's initial story of tracking a serial killer janitor comes under scrutiny and the initial facts about her brother, Phil, get turned on their head. At times the twists are enough to give the reader whiplash. Ruff's expert characterization of Jane and agile manipulation of layers of reality ground the novel and make it more than just a Philip K. Dick rip-off.
Customer Reviews
Great Start, Interesting Middle, Confusing Finish
I am not a vigorous reader, so I should say right off that Bad Monkeys kept me engaged from the first page to the last. It is well written, interesting and a quick and fun read. It grabbed me right away and kept me fixated through the first two thirds. The storyline was great and the stage setting was a lot of fun. If I have one complaint, it would be that the story went from a really interesting "is she crazy, is she not" story to combination Matrix and Star Trek in the lat third. It felt somewhat like a completely different story, although still pretty interesting. In the end, I would definitely recommend reading it and still give it a rating of 4 stars.
Very cool
First book by him. Read it in 2 days. Loved every second. Looking forward to reading more!
CRAZY!
There were so many plot twists I could barely keep up. Bravo Matt!