The Flaxen Femme Fatale

The Flaxen Femme Fatale
Author: John Zakour
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2008
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780756405199

The last freelance P.I. on Earth, Zach Johnson has been hired to track down a young beauty who happens to be a deadly secret weapon for the World Council. Zach follows Natasha to various vacation destinations, but she eludes him, leaving a trail of destruction in her wake. Original.

The Plutonium Blonde

The Plutonium Blonde
Author: John Zakour
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2001-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101500301

"My name is Zachary Nixion Johnson. I am the last private detective on Earth...not exactly one hundred percent true, but it sounds good." "The year is 2057 and, after a handful of species-altering upheavals, earth-shatteringc cataclysms, history changing extra-terrestrial contacts, and pop-culture disasters, the world is now a pretty safe place..." "But every once in a while some crazy thing happens that threatens all of society, all of humanity, or the entire space-time continuum." "And for some reason it always happens on my watch." So begins the first installment of this all-new, all-hilarious trilogy that pokes fun at the pulps, and skewers sci-fi, as a private dick of the future goes after the most dangerous prey of all...The Plutonium Blonde.

The Sapphire Sirens

The Sapphire Sirens
Author: John Zakour
Publisher: D A W Books, Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780756405816

Zach Johnson, the world’s last freelance detective, has been man-napped by the beautiful sapphire-haired Amazon Kiana. She’s brought him to her home island of Lantis—where the women dominate men with their words—to discover who killed her mother, the Queen. But to save the day this time, Zach and his holographic A.I. sidekick HARV have to tangle with not just one gorgeous superwoman, but four. Each of Kiana’s three sisters could have the motive and the means to pull off the crime—and now that you mention it, Kiana could too...

Gun, With Occasional Music

Gun, With Occasional Music
Author: Jonathan Lethem
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 274
Release: 1995-01-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312858780

Twenty-first-century private detective Conrad Metcalf has a dead doctor on his hands, a monkey on his back, and a kangaroo in his waiting room in a first novel with a sharp-edged, funny vision of the future.

The Improv Handbook

The Improv Handbook
Author: Tom Salinsky
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 521
Release: 2017-10-19
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1350026174

The Improv Handbook is the most comprehensive, smart, helpful and inspiring guide to improv available today. Applicable to comedians, actors, public speakers and anyone who needs to think on their toes, it features a range of games, interviews, descriptions and exercises that illuminate and illustrate the exciting world of improvised performance. First published in 2008, this second edition features a new foreword by comedian Mike McShane, as well as new exercises on endings, managing blind offers and master-servant games, plus new and expanded interviews with Keith Johnstone, Neil Mullarkey, Jeffrey Sweet and Paul Rogan. The Improv Handbook is a one-stop guide to the exciting world of improvisation. Whether you're a beginner, an expert, or would just love to try it if you weren't too scared, The Improv Handbook will guide you every step of the way.

The Doomsday Brunette

The Doomsday Brunette
Author: John Zakour
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2004-02-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101498242

The hilarious sequel to The plutonium Blonde. In the year 2057, the last freelance private investigator, partnered with an experimental A.I. named Harv, solves cases involving androids, future tech wizards, and all sorts of mayhem...

The Radioactive Redhead

The Radioactive Redhead
Author: John Zakour
Publisher: Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2018-05-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1625670508

Everyone’s favorite sci-fi PI is back on the beat in this third Nuclear Bombshell mystery. Includes the prequel novella, The Peach-Blonde Bomber! After a chance encounter at a Kabuki theater, Zach Johnson has reluctantly agreed to lend a hand to Sexy Sprockets, 2060’s most fabulously famous pop-singer. Sexy has received a slew of death threats from an obsessive fan intent on making sure her ascendant career is cut short. In the guise of Sexy’s bodyguard, Zach enters the dizzying world of showbiz to uncover Sexy’s stalker before he can make good on his threats. Together with his sentient super-computer, HARV, and his psionic assistant, Carol, Zach must use all his PI wisdom to ensnare the would-be killer. At the same time, world famous media mogul Rupert Roundtree has positioned Zach as the unwilling star of his next great reality series, entitled Let’s Kill Zach. Zach will need to stay one step ahead of the murderous mogul if he’s going to save the imperiled pop singer. Praise for the Nuclear Bombshell mysteries “A wild and crazy adventure that blends noir detective fiction and far-out future SF to create a tongue-in-cheek, thoroughly enjoyable story.” —SF Site “Surprisingly clever . . . spoofs the genre and everything else in sight.” —Science Fiction Chronicle “Abbott and Costello meet a futuristic crime noir . . . readers will laugh until they cry.” —AllReaders.com “A fun romp through cyberspace and the future Earth . . . I enjoyed this tongue-in-cheek look at the future of private investigation.” —MyShelf.com

The Frost-Haired Vixen

The Frost-Haired Vixen
Author: John Zakour
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2006
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780756403973

In the year 2061, Zachary Nixon, the last P.I. on Earth, is hired by Santana Clausa, the mutant CEO of the North Pole Organization, to find a not-so-nice killer who is trying to sabotage the winter holidays by picking off her cloned elf workers one-by-one. Original.

The Blue-haired Bombshell

The Blue-haired Bombshell
Author: John Zakour
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2007
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780756404550

Hired to find the assassin who murdered three members of the World Council, Zach Johnson, the last freelance detective, journeys to the Moon, where he encounters a harem of gorgeous, blue-haired psi babes and a dangerous woman named Lea who possesses great power. Original.