“Don’t worry,” a voice whispers. “You really only need one.” Phineas Poe, disgraced cop turned psychiatric case, turned murder suspect, turned reluctant kidney donor, gives $200 to a beautiful woman in a red dress, a scar at the edge of her mouth and a body like a knife. He then wakes up in a bath of melting ice, blood on his fingers and staples in his sides. Now she haunts his dreams and his days. She’s got his kidney on ice and her teeth in his heart. Finding her means throwing himself into a drug-blurred underworld. Falling in love with her means fighting to avoid becoming her accomplice as well as her victim. Fast, corrosive wit, glittering, razor-sharp images, a cast of comic and sinister characters, part love story, part mystery, part hallucination, Kiss Me, Judas is a startling novel of modern noir. “A surreal nightmare full of the hard-boiled nourish spirit of Raymond Chandler.” – San Francisco Chronicle

Kiss Me, Judas

Literature & Fiction

Baer, Will Christopher

Dramas & Plays

Penguin Publishing Group

In the suspenseful sequel to Kiss Me, Judas, ex-cop Phineas Poe joins his old ally, Detective Moon, in the search for a missing officer, Jimmy Sky, a man who may not even exist, and becomes embroiled in a bizarre role-playing game involving sexual warfare, torture, paranoid visions, and multiple realities. Reprint.

Penny Dreadful

United States

Penguin??Books

Kiss Me, Judas: A Novel

VIKING

A disgraced former police officer and morphine addict, Phineas Poe follows a mysterious, beautiful, and deadly woman named Jude through a drugged-out underworld of stolen kidneys, violent fantasy games, and snuff films, in an omnibus edition containing the three Phineas Poe novels--Kiss Me, Judas, Penny Dreadful, and Hell's Half Acre. Original.

Phineas Poe: Kiss Me Judas, Penny Dreadful, Hell's Half Acre

Literary

Macadam Cage Pub

Have you ever loved someone who’s mortally wounded you? Phineas Poe, disgraced cop and morphine addict, has just been released from a psych ward when he meets a beautiful woman named Jude in a hotel bar. Red dress, black hair, body like a knife. He takes her back to his room and wakes the next morning in a bathtub full of blood and ice, missing a kidney. 
Dragging himself from a hospital bed, Phineas discovers he wants to be with Jude like a hunger – and he wants to find her and kill her. Falling for her is the start of a twisted love story that takes him from the snowy streets of Denver to the high plains of Texas where the boundaries between torturer and victim, killer and accomplice, become nightmarishly distorted.

Lawson Library

Cast adrift after the blood symphony of Penny Dreadful, Phineas Poe tracks Jude to San Francisco, where he finds her involved with John Ransom Miller, a wealthy sociopath aiding Jude s revenge fantasies in exchange for her complicity in an unspeakable crime. Alone and outgunned, Poe hopes he can save Jude from herself, make sense of his own past, and navigate the tortuous internal landscape he calls Hell s Half Acre.

Hell's Half Acre

Contemporary

MACADAM/CAGE.

Ex-cop Phineas Poe, suspected of murdering his young wife, has been in a mental hospital but is now in a Denver hotel. He meets Jude, and wakes up in a bath full of ice with one of his kidneys missing. Things start getting complicated when Phineas falls in love with Jude.

In this claustrophobic tale of urban despair and existential noir, ex-cop Phineas Poe-protagonist of Will Christopher Baer's first novel, Kiss Me, Judas-returns to Denver to find that reality has been rewritten and the laws of reason redrawn. When Phineas is asked by his old ally, Detective Moon, to find a missing officer named Jimmy Sky, he becomes an unwitting participant in a live role-playing game. Everyone he meets has multiple personalities, and Phineas himself soon loses track of his own various identities. Crossing the lines between traditional noir, fantasy, and edgy realism, Penny Dreadful shares sensibilities with everything from the books of William Gibson and Neal Gaiman to the films Trainspotting and The Matrix and the webgames Doom and Myst.

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Kiss Me, Judas

Penny Dreadful

Kiss Me, Judas: A Novel

Penny Dreadful

Phineas Poe: Kiss Me Judas, Penny Dreadful, Hell's Half Acre

Kiss Me, Judas

Hell's Half Acre

Kiss Me, Judas

Penny Dreadful

Hell's Half Acre