Bad Monkeys

by Matt Ruff

published 2007 by HarperCollinsPublishers

cover design by Will Staehle; book design by Emily Cavett Taff

Available from Amazon.com

"Bad Monkeys has wit and imagination by the bucketload. Buy it, read it, memorize then destroy it. There are eyes everywhere."

— Christopher Moore

2008 Washington State Book Award winner

2008 PNBA Book Award winner

2008 Alex Award winner

2008 John W. Campbell Award finalist

Synopsis:

Jane Charlotte has been arrested for murder.

She tells police that she is a member of a secret organization devoted to fighting evil; her division is called “The Department for the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons”— “Bad Monkeys” for short.

This confession earns Jane a trip to the jail’s psychiatric wing, where a doctor attempts to determine whether she is lying, crazy—or playing a different game altogether.

To read the first chapter of Bad Monkeys online, click here.