Eat My Meat

Hack was watching the Kamala Harris/Donald Trump debate last night and nodded off just as Trump was stating his asinine lie that Haitian immigrants in Ohio were stealing dogs and cats so that they could eat them. Hack awoke in a pool of his own vomit a few hours later with this manuscript lying beside him. Surprisingly, it’s more plausible than anything Trump said in the debate.

Black Russian

When Hack’s cover artist Jonny M. was having a conversation with his friend, black standup comedian Dévyan DuMon, Dévyan went into a comic riff on racial matters and kept giving Jonny openings to join in. Jonny, being a wealthy, entitled lily-white, dude knew there was no goddamned way that he could say a word on the subject and curled up into a self-conscious pretzel, to Dévyan’s conspicuous amusement.

Hack loved hearing about Jonny’s anguish and wrote this Cold War espionage thriller to immortalize it. It sold well in Berkeley.