John Ridley

In the near future, the world has become home to certain people with amazing genetic structures-giving them powers that make them frighteningly superior to normal humans.

His name tag reads Paris Scott. A night clerk in a low-rent convenience store, living off his last dollar, freshly kicked to the curb by his girlfriend; it might as well say: "loser." Until a chance encounter with a filthy vagrant leads to a Bel Air mansion, a dead rock star's last gasp on tape, and a chance for Paris to flirt with a dream.

Dreaming of making it big in the entertainment world, aspiring black comic Jackie Mann will do anything to achieve his goal as he journeys from Harlem to the height of fame, in a novel set during the early days of the civil rights movement.

Everything's a racket for Jeffty Kittridge, a thirty-seven-year-old ex-wannabe scriptwriter living on the skids in Hollywood - the two-bit cons he pulls for spending money; the way he convinces himself that he's not a drunk between every shot of booze he kicks back; the way he tries to assure Dumas, the local shark, that he's just about to pay off his 15K debt...Except he's not good at any of that. The fact is, Jeffty's a loser, big as they come, and things aren't about to change up for him anytime soon. Then he stumbles on salvation: a dirt-caked, street-hardened, exquisitely beautiful young homeless woman named Mona - Jeffty prefers to think of her as Angel - who inspires both his love and the idea for the perfect con. It's Jeffty's chance to hit it big, and to be set for good in his new life with his new love. "The thing about love," Jeffty declares, "is no matter how twisted, or wrong, or evil, it never dies." But as the momentum of the con carries him closer and closer to what he imagines will be a moment of blissed-out consummation with his angel Mona, Jeffty discovers there are some severe exceptions to his rule.

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