Shooting Elvis is a highly charged, action-packed thriller about a California good girl gone bad. Cute, blond Mary Alice Baker takes pictures of toddlers for a living, loves her mother, and is willing to inure the wrath of her violent father by photographing him in all his drunken, abusive glory. But on one life-altering day, Mary delivers a briefcase to a stranger at LAX for her Harley-driving boyfriend. When it explodes and levels a terminal, Mary becomes an accidental terrorist and transforms herself into Nina Zero--punk fugitive, thief, and private eye. Her quest to discover who set her up and why drives this fiercely intense narrative to its explosive ending.
Editorial Reviews
"An often funny, often violent, ripping roller-coaster ride laced with black humor, acid wit, and dead-on observations about life, fame and fortune in the late 1990s." --The Independent
"A stylish, hilariously cynical, high-action, pop-noir thriller...It's not often you find a novel that combines good old hard-boiled smart talk with feisty feminism, punk fashion and references to Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol. What a blast." --Booklist
"Eversz's novel reads like The Catcher in the Rye with high explosives." --The Daily Telegraph (London)
"Eversz, a master of plot and one-liners, has turned the old Raymond Chandler tradition on its ear with his terrifically resourceful heroine. He is also a devastatingly funny social critic." --New City Lit
About the Author
Robert M. Eversz lived in Los Angeles for more than a decade, working in Hollywood and its fringes, before packing it in for his current home in Prague. His first novel starring Nina Zero, Shooting Elvis, has been translated into ten languages and received worldwide acclaim.