Las Vegas Bootlegger
By Noah Cicero
Published by Trident Press, 2020
139 pages, paperback
Ryan Neroni is a lonely lawyer with bad breath. All his life he's had everything handed to him on a silver platter, but after winning what should have been a career-defining lawsuit, he discovers that what he really wants is to drive contraband across state lines in a fast car with tinted windows. With the help of Theresa Barahona, an innocent and aspiring multi-level marketing entrepreneur, nothing can get in his way. Not social expectations, not the emptiness of the western U.S., and certainly not a string of surreal experiences orchestrated by a shadow organization known only as "the Committee."
Praise for Las Vegas Bootlegger...
“I read Noah Cicero and remember that ‘hysterical’ can refer to something really funny and to a situation completely out of control. His work punches people in the face. Don’t get in its way.” -Daniel Handler, also known as Lemony Snicket, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events
“[Cicero is] the deadpan prince of the indie-lit underground.” -Nevada Public Radio
“Las Vegas Bootlegger is philosophical, emotional, and tender. And innovative. Because there is an emotion gun in Noah Cicero’s book and a quasi-immobile figure who doesn’t eat or go to the bathroom and is named after a Stephen King character. Cicero has a way of making all love, especially romantic love, too illegal in a state that loves legality too much.” -Vi Khi Nao, author of Human Tetris and Sheep Machine.