Lizard City: A Pulp Thriller

"Her face blurred into some strange abstract expressionist oil by a drunken dead hand Johnny couldn’t remember the name of. Her words slowed and then sped up like playback on reel to reel. A strange unique language. Her prehensile tongue whipped out from the corner of her mouth and licked his eyebrow. Her face was now the dull green color of pea soup. Her lips were moving but the words were underwater. Her eyes slowly blackened to those of a reptile." AT LAST after years of being lost in a filing cabinet drawer the manuscript to LIZARD CITY has been recovered and retyped (manual type-writer) with reptiles hanging from the ceiling in a hot and hazy Bangkok room. Here it is. Newman's LIZARD CITY Originally a pulp short story writer JAMES A. NEWMAN'S first crime novel BANGKOK EXPRESS made a huge pulp splash and was followed swiftly by the dark and gritty RED NIGHT ZONE, but it wasn't until the razor sharp novel THE WHITE FLAMINGO that Newman hit the number one spot in the NOIR charts and caught the attention of his peers. Edgar and Shamus nominee crime author Timothy Hallinan describes Newman as an author who "writes with a flamethrower, terrifically gifted, enormously energetic." He has been compared by critics to Charles Bukowski, Stephen King, Ken Bruen, Hunter S. Thompson and William Burroughs. The follow-up in the Joe Dylan series THE BLACK ROSE as been discribed as "a page turner from the get-go, Newman doesn't waste any words or the readers time." Newman also writes many short stories, novels, non-fiction work, screen and stage-plays along with being the co-founder and content editor of SPANKING PULP PRESS. He is also the founder of the BANGKOK NIGHT OF NOIR and a member of the Bangkok Writers Guild. He lives in Bangkok with his young family and writes as if his very life depends on it. Which it does.