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Everybody Smokes in Hell

Written by: John Ridley
Narrated by: Peter Francis James
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 When Filthy White Guy buys about a hundred burritos and blows up the microwave of the convenience store where Paris Scott has been working for 30 long nights, Paris decides his life couldn't be more of a mess. But when he gives Filthy White Guy a ride home to a Bel Air mansion, things really start to explode.

From the dark desperation of Los Angeles to the false neon hope of Las Vegas, acclaimed author John Ridley steers a viciously careening ride through a world of dope dealers, Hollywood agents, two-bit felons, and three-dollar strippers. Narrator Peter Francis James expertly voices the flamboyant longings of people who will pay any price to flirt with a dream, even if it's someone else's.

©1999 International Famous Players Radio Picture Corporation (P)2004 Recorded Books Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Mystery Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense

What the critics say

"As usual, Ridley ably strings together a series of unlikely events, making them seem wholly plausible. Continual action, believably unsympathetic characters, and minimal description combine to keep the reader riveted. A welcome change of pace from much of today's plodding fiction." (Library Journal)
"Strong-as-firecrackers plot...Day-Glo dialogue...[A] seriously noir-ish, ultra-violent, ultra-high-speed, occasionally hilarious, dark farce of a novel." (The Washington Post Book World)
"[A] relentless pace...Ridley seems to have a knack for capturing the comic-tragic, tragic-comic lessons of life that seem so prevalent in this half of the twentieth century." (Los Angeles Times Book Review)

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Peter Francis James does an amazing job narrating this gritty tale in the style of Pulp Fiction, by John Ridley. A colorful cast of characters almost randomly intermingle in a tsunami of theft, violence, and lust. One stolen tape and one misplaced bag of drugs, and a domino effect of insanity is off to the races! The dialogue and drama were both top-notch, and the book has a "machine-gun" style of prose...which is amazing, but a little overdone if I do say so, A definite must-listen.

A gripping and intriguing tale

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