Introduction

ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF FOURTEEN STORIES, NONE OF THEM ARE YOURS, CO-WRITER of the films CAUSEWAY and EILEEN

RECIPIENT OF PRESTIGIOUS RONALD SUKENICK INNOVATIVE FICTION PRIZE AND JOAN SCOTT MEMORIAL FICTION AWARD

Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by LIT HUB and PLAYBOY, and featured in the NEW YORK POST'S “31 Page-Turning New Thrillers to Read.”

"Marked by deliberate instability, the ambitious satirical novel Kill Dick skewers contemporary literary seriousness even as it participates in it." —Foreword Reviews

A fever dream, Kill Dick is a literary thriller that plunges into the chaos of Los Angeles, where addiction, privilege, and corruption combust.

At nineteen, Susie Vogelman should be coasting: she’s an NYU dropout with no responsibilities, endless prescription pills, and a Brentwood estate to waste away in. But Los Angeles has other plans. A string of brutal murders targeting addicts spreads through the city, and Susie’s ivory tower begins to crumble. The headlines point too close to home: her father’s ties to an opioid empire, a sinister secret society, and her own complicity in the systems holding it all together.

Then there’s Peter Holiday, a disgraced professor running a rehab scam so audacious it’s almost admirable. When their lives collide, Susie and Peter are dragged into a web of privilege, corruption, and violence, where every escape leads deeper into the rot.

Dark, satirical, and razor-sharp, Kill Dick is a modern literary thriller that unflinchingly dissects wealth, exploitation, and the perilous line between survival and self-destruction.

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Excerpt

In Brentwood Circle, Los Angeles . . .
Here they came again, the winds, blowing through Hollywood, up and around the hills—dry and hot—roaming across Mulholland into Sherman Oaks and onto Burbank, or whooshing Laurel Canyon and down Beverly Glen, sifting buttermilk-pancake dust up through Beverly Hills and Bel Air—rustling clusters of pines and palms, sun-lashed sycamore and coastal redwood, rows of Italian Cypress, sun-hot oranges and lemons—before finally touching down in Brentwood, where Susie Vogelman lay stoned on a chaise longue by the swimming pool in her backyard, wiggling her toes indifferently in the rushing air. ... view entire excerpt...

Discussion Questions

From the author:

1. Opioids & Profit: Who benefited? Who disappeared? Who’s still lying?

2. Epstein America: Power, consent, silence, and why nothing “really” happened

3. Grief as Policy: What America does to people after the cameras leave

4. Sex, Money, and Violence: What we normalize and what we pretend shocks us

5. Art as Evidence: Can fiction tell the truth faster than journalism?

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