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Chaos Free
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781944527051
Publisher: Natural Press
Published: Mar 2 2026
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Ian Bloom wrote Chaos Free at age 23 in Los Angeles, fresh from New York - post-grad, pre-myth - when the city still felt like an open ledger and every favor carried a hidden rate. Written in heat and velocity, Chaos Free is a screenplay disguised as a novel, or a novel wearing a screenplay's suit, depending on who's holding the gun.
It begins with a horse named Chaos Free and a bet that should have been clean. It becomes a chain reaction: a private investigator contracted into a case that keeps multiplying, a dead girl who isn't dead, a boyfriend drowning in the hole, and an ancient horse-face mask moving through racetracks, museums, airport garages, canyon roads, private planes, and the hollow temples of Hollywood-where stolen art becomes currency and violence becomes administration. Everyone is watching. Everyone is brokered. Every romance is leverage. Even the detective is too smart for his own tricks-until the trick is him.
A noir engine-hard-boiled, lucid, and strange - Chaos Free moves like a case file: silhouette and cigarette, glint and ruin, a bleach-lit freefall that smokes as it falls.
Read it like a dossier. Then burn it.
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