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One Shot Amigo
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ISBN13: 9798999537300
Publisher: Whiskey Bay Press
Published: Jan 7 2026
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Publisher: Whiskey Bay Press
Published: Jan 7 2026
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
One Shot Amigo teleports you back to late nineties NYC like tapping a vein and streaming a direct vertigo feed so intense it's dislocating as it is delirious. The voice of daydreaming antihero Carl Shoe is noir bebop poetry that morphs on a dime from lust to anger to hope and heartbreak that lingers like smoke to twist in your head days after turning the last page.
-Will Christopher Baer, author of Kiss Me, Judas
Carl Shoe arrives in New York City with a machete and a camera, fully prepared to become the next Eugene Smith. What he finds instead are dead-end jobs, cheap rooms, and a string of dick-punch realities delivered by an indifferent world. When Cora-an accomplished but mysterious photographer-tells him to go south, he's swept into a too good to be true opportunity that leads to a relentless, hallucinatory search for a missing woman in Costa Rica.More than noir, One Shot Amigo is a broken prayer whispered through a viewfinder-a story about chasing beauty in a world that eats its dreamers alive. It's lyrical, raw, and haunted by the idea that 1/1000th of a second is all that stands between success and failure, ambition and delusion, and life and death.
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