No one left to come looking for you : a novel

ISBN: 1501146149
ISBN: 9781501146145
ISBN: 1501146122
ISBN: 9781501146121
Physical Description: 210 pages ; 22 cm print
Edition: First Simon &amp; Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York, New York : Simon &amp; Schuster, 2022.
Copyright: &copy;2022

Lipsyte, Sam 1968- (author.).

Summary: Manhattan's East Village, 1993. Dive bars, DIY music venues, shady weirdos, and hard drugs are plentiful. Crime is high but rent is low, luring hopeful, creative kids from sleepy suburbs around the country. One of these is Jack S., a young New Jersey rock musician. Just a few days before his band's biggest gig, their lead singer goes missing with Jack's prized bass, presumably to hock it to feed his junk habit. Jack's search for his buddy uncovers a sinister entanglement of crimes tied to local real estate barons looking to remake New York City, and who might also be connected to the recent death of Jack's punk rock mentor. Along the way, Jack encounters a cast of colorful characters, including a bewitching, quick-witted scenester who favors dressing in a nurse's outfit, a monstrous hired killer with a devotion to both figure skating and edged weapons, a deranged if prophetic postwar novelist, and a tough-talking cop who fancies himself a retro-cool icon of the homicide squad but is harboring a surprising secret.