A highly literary and always engaging 21st century noir... Born Slippy confronts contemporary
questions about the relativity of evil that no one can dodge.- Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick and After Kathy Acker.
Lutz has the seven deadly sins nailed and rethought for our 2020 world. You've got to dig this book! - James Ellroy
Tom Lutz has written the kind of novel a globetrotting Graham Greene might have written had he lived to trot around our contempo, gone-to-hell globe - now divided into neo-imperialist sociopathic zillionaires, and the rest of us. Born Slippy is smart, dark, funny and, best of all, what used to be called a real page-turner. You'll love this book. - Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight, I, Fatty, and Old Guy Dad
A smart and propulsive wild ride from the genteel mansions of Hartford Connecticut to the more louche corners of Asia. Lutz's debut is a technicolor noir, a smart, literary and literate thriller-like love child of Elmore Leonard and Graeme Greene. Original and deft and not to be missed. - Ivy Pochoda, author of Wonder Valley and Visitation Street
What a pleasure, to sink under the comedic spell of Tom Lutz's debut novel! The perfect book for a dreary day-- a gleeful, twisty tale of an unlikely friendship. Its antagonist young bloviating Dmitry Heald, with his wild schemes and hair-raising tales, is the guy you can't trust to go to the market, while the older Frank, his boss, is a man who should know better, and yet can't resist. Infinitely entertaining. I'd put it on the shelf between Tom Robbins and Martin Amis, if a place can be cleared there. - Janet Fitch, author of The Revolution of Marina M. and Chimes of a Lost Cathedral
Born Slippy is a whip-smart, whirlwind novel of noir and adventure, humor and horror, cynicism and romance. Lutz's sterling prose and love of literature light up this unique page-turner about the friendship between a man who would be good and the amoral, magnetic narcissist who comes to dominate his life story. - Steph Cha, author of Your House Will Pay
An entertaining neo-noir about the wages of greed. - Kirkus Reviews
Tom Lutz comes out fast, deep and fully equipped with a mesmerizing debut novel. Every page twists and turns with incredible developments, literary prowess, daring routes and mind-stretching adventures. A task and crew of characters few can take head on and ride all the way to the last thrilling pages. Born Slippy won't slip by the prizes. - Juan Felipe Herrera, US Poet Laureate 2015-17
