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Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff

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Feb 22, 11


Jane Charlotte has been arrested for murder.

She tells police that she is a member of a secret organization devoted to fighting evil and 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.

I turned this book’s pages so fast they were smokin’. Ruff has constructed a plot so unique, I’m still talking it up to everyone I know.

It has so many twists and turns it makes a slinky toy look linear. Is Jane crazy? It’s not beyond the realm of possibility—she has some definite drug abuse issues. But maybe the doctor she tells her story to merely thinks she’s crazy. Hard to blame him, since she speaks of an organization that puts its operatives through a dream school where they learn in their sleep things like the use of the Daily Jumble as a covert communication channel and the proper handling of the NC gun, a weapon that kills by way of seemingly natural causes.

And if the Department for the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons does exist, is Jane too much of a loose cannon even for an organization that uses an intel gathering program called Eyes Only, which plants miniature sensor devices in representatives of eyes, so that every time you see an eyeball in a painting, a photograph, a sculpture or a dollar bill there’s a chance it's monitoring you?

Only one way to find out, my friends. Grab yourself a copy of Bad Monkeys and while away an evening with a story that will keep you guessing to the very last page. It’s a fun, fast, furious ride.

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