You’re not assigned to oversee a CIA front company in Dublin unless you screwed up royally—and Joe Chambers did. If he didn’t know so much about so many people, the CIA would probably terminate him—possibly in both senses of the word. Instead, he’s stuck managing Whetstone Publishing while his stateside boss comes up with ever more daft ways to maximize profits.
But Joe’s frustration is only just beginning. An MI6 agent keeps breaking into his apartment and stealing his booze, presumably revenge for blowing the guy’s cover in Athens; his publishing assistant’s too smart for her own good; and with head office’s cost-cutting measures hitting new highs of lunacy, he might need to start selling drugs or—God forbid!—move back to the States. Oh, and he’s got a tapeworm named Steve happily curled up in his guts.
A raucous mix of double crosses, brothels, and cocktail recipes, Breakfast at Cannibal Joe’s is a dark, twisted, and picaresque tale for fans of Catch-22 and Fight Club.
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Arthur Smith, comedian, writer, and broadcaster
“Too clever by half. Too funny by three and five-eighths.”
Niamh Greene, author, The Secret Diary of a Demented Housewife, Coco’s Secret
“Savagely funny and deftly anarchic, Jay Spencer Green’s writing is as exquisite as it is deliciously dangerous.”
Lisa McInerney, author, The Glorious Heresies
“Witty, acerbic, and wired to words.”
William Wall, author, This is the Country, Ghost Estate
“The comic writing of Jay Spencer Green always makes me laugh out loud.”
Karl Whitney, author, Hidden City: Adventures and Explorations in Dublin
“Anytime I read Jay’s work I expect my funny bone to be taken on a trip in a fast car that is then driven off a cliff.”
Donagh Brennan, editor, Irish Left Review
“Irrepressibly funny, savagely indignant, and immensely readable.”
Olibhéir Ó Fearraigh, writer and broadcaster
“A higgledy-piggledy hodge-podge of style which makes Swiftian use of Burroughs and Burroughsian use of Vonnegut. Set in an archetypal dystopia that may never have existed … or will it? A Catcher in the Rye for the wifi generation.”
Carlton B. Morgan, novelist, cartoonist, musician
“Jay Spencer Green is the most exciting voice to pretend to come out of Ireland since the leprechaun in Leprechaun.”
Oliver Jones, animation rigging supervisor, Laika Inc.
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Caitriona Lally, author, Eggshells
“As they say round our way, that guy knows how to hold a pen.”
Lorcan McGrane comedian and writer, Monaghan Arts Network
“I was there at the start of Jay Green’s writing career, and I hope I’m there at the end.”
Niall Quinn, broadcaster, columnist, Republic of Ireland soccer legend
“I first encountered Jay Spencer Green’s inimitable voice on his blog and became an immediate fan. His was the pitch of screamingly funny we all wanted to reach. He’s read everything and has byways in his mind you just want to linger in and poke around, watching his neurons spark. His particular blend of the philosophical and the absurd is wholly original, and his masterful narrative skill is strong enough to bind the deliciously anarchic and farcical elements of his stories into a rollicking whole. He writes, we delight. He’s the real deal. He also happens to be a thoroughly lovely man.”
Sami Zahringer, columnist and blogger
“Scathing, scabrous, scatalogical, scary.”
Daphne Wayne-Bough, blogger and bonne vivante
“This book is a fat man standing on an air bed in a pool of over-ripe peaches.”
John Hyatt, author, artist, musician, Renaissance man, Quiet genius
