No One Left to Come Looking for You: A Novel

ISBN: 1501146130

Author: Lipsyte, Sam

Condition: Used

A darkly comic mystery by the author of Hark and The Ask set in the vibrant music scene of early 1990s New York City.Manhattans East Village, 1993. Dive bars, DIY music venues, shady weirdos, and hard drugs are plentiful. Crime is high but rent is low, luring hopeful, creative kids from sleepy suburbs around the country.One of these is Jack S., a young New Jersey rock musician. Just a few days before his bands biggest gig, their lead singer goes missing with Jacks prized bass, presumably to hock it to feed his junk habit. Jacks search for his buddy uncovers a sinister entanglement of crimes tied to local real estate barons looking to remake New York City-and who might also be connected to the recent death of Jacks punk rock mentor. Along the way, Jack encounters a cast of colorful characters, including a bewitching, quick-witted scenester who favors dressing in a nurses outfit, a monstrous hired killer with a devotion to both figure skating and edged weapons, a deranged if prophetic postwar novelist, and a tough-talking cop who fancies himself a retro-cool icon of the homicide squad but is harboring a surprising secret.No One Left to Come Looking for You is a page-turning suspense novel that also serves as a love letter to a bygone era of New York City where young artists could still afford to chase their dreams.