Bad Monkeys by Matt RuffPublisher: Harper Collins Publishers 2007
Paperback 230 pages
This book is the perfect blend of science fiction, thriller and absurdity. The world is made up of "Bad Monkeys" and it is up to a secret organization to take them out, one at a time. Jane Charlotte, a former bad monkey in the making, is one of the field agents for this secret organization before she is taken into custody by the real police. In a series of sessions with a psychotherapist in the Las Vegas County Jail, Jane tells the story of her early life in San Francisco and her assimilation into the "Bad Monkeys," an organization devoted to fighting evil. And while we are trying to determine if Jane is crazy or sane, bad monkey or misunderstood, we find that nothing is quite what it seems as Jane's initial story of tracking a serial killer janitor comes under scrutiny and the initial facts about her brother, Phil, get turned on their head. The twists and turns this novel takes is enough to leave you guessing until the final mind bending pages where we learn that reality is often stranger than fiction.
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