Love Stories Are Too Violent For Me The Definitive Rerelease Of The Cult Classic Will Viharo by Will Viharo 9781939751102, 1939751101, B00T3P5BES instant download after payment.

Back in print after two decades, this modern, ironic detective story features iconic private eye Vic Valentine, who is hired by a hard-drinking professional baseball player to find a vanished lover. From there, a troubling journey begins, as the hunt leads Valentine down a twisting trail of decadence and danger that eventually takes him to the most unexpected place—the private eye's own past. This is pulp in the classic sense: the story of a lonesome outsider wrestling with existence and sucked into a whirlpool of lust, passion, and desperation, all served hot, fast, and straight out of the emotionally gory grindhouse called life.

"Fast, funny and way ahead of the 'noir' curve." —Eddie Muller, author, Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir

"As soon as I found this book I totally related to the main character and thought, 'This would make a great movie.' I'd never read anything like it." —Christian Slater, actor/filmmaker

“While it has all the trappings of Philip Marlowe by way of Race Williams, this book is an old fashioned (if slightly fractured) love story at heart . . . To tell more of the story is about as hopeless as, well, trying to explain the plot of a Marlowe or a Williams. It’s in the telling, in the characters, in the whirlwind pace.” —Bernard A. Drew, author, 100 Most Popular Contemporary Mystery Authors

Will Viharo is a "gonzo pulp" writer, B-movie impresario, and the former host, programmer, and producer of the live "cult movie cabaret," Thrillville. He is the author of Down a Dark Alley , Freaks That Carry Your Luggage Up to the Room , and A Mermaid Drowns in the Midnight Lounge. He lives in San Francisco.