Gotham Tragic by Kurt Wenzel

"'All Muslims are mad, of course. Not mad in the sense of angry, though they are certainly that, but daffy mad, glazed-eyed-crazy-stare mad, ipso facto mad.' So go the controversial words of author Kyle Clayton, the star of Kurt Wenzel's quick moving new novel Gotham Tragic, the sequel to his debut Lit Life. It is with these words, which begin a New Yorker style fiction piece, that Clayton lands himself in the sights of a group of militant Muslims, who, angered by Kyle's offensive diatribe, call a fatwa against the author, effectively placing a bounty on the head. And this is just the beginning of Kyle's troubles."

Read Michael O'Connor's review of Gotham Tragic.