"Kicks major ass...A fitting memorial to the wisdom of the hero's late grandfather: 'I'm always angry. It saves time.'"

"The unflinching Zen master of all trades in fiction reveals some of his best, most disarming magic in the epic sequel to Felonious Monk, proving again that no one does a gumshoe thriller quite like William Kotzwinkle. Here is a damn-near miraculous and grimly hilarious two-gun rocket ride through a mystic labyrinth of passion and crime, populated by a seemingly never-ending cast of quirky guys and dangerous dames, sadistic gangsters and salacious street toughs--there's even a Kung Fu hairdresser!--all running on fumes from hell's own refinery, circled by the one man who might save them, and yet is the most tragic and fated of all: the renegade monk Tommy Martini. In Kotzwinkle's masterful hands and through Tommy's unflinching eyes, we face the evils of our times and the most desperate and important questions of god and man in a constant battle for our own soul, all the while taking it on the chin for so many other sinners. From its first explosive chapter to the last stunning sentence, Bloody Martini is a tour-de-force that will force you to stay up very late, gazing deep into a black, yet profoundly illuminating night."

"This wry, extremely funny, character-driven novel will remind readers of classic LA noir...Kotzwinkle is sure to win new fans with this one."

"There is plenty of suspense, danger, violent confrontations, unexpected revelations, romance, and above all: originality...The novel is replete with bizarre characters who seem real and intensely alive, because William Kotzwinkle is incapable of writing about stereotypical characters...Kotzwinkle is a philosopher and theologian in addition to being a novelist."

"A savage, white-hot noir overflowing with humor darker than Vantablack. Uncompromising, page-turning, genre-bending--James Cain on nitrous and LSD. Kotzwinkle firing on all cylinders = the best thriller of the year."

"Tommy Martini shows his hard-boiled PI creds right off in this riot of a novel...One has a sense of a writer gleefully deploying a splendid gift for creating bright images that illuminate a moment without distracting from it."