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	80's hair metal band Savage Night is living the rockstar fantasy. They trash hotel rooms, run through groupies, and flaunt their goods in music videos with bloated budgets. All that changes while on tour in Japan, when the band learns they owe more money than they have. They discuss their options: add a keyboardist, release a live album, and tour for six straight years in hopes of breaking even. The Drummer chooses a different path. He shaves his head, takes the next flight back to the States, torches the mansion that his stripper ex-girlfriend designed, and fakes his own death. 15 years after their tragic collapse, the Singer of Savage Night has tracked down the Drummer in hopes of convincing him to come out of hiding for a reunion tour and second shot at glory. The chase is on, as the press, the Feds, and former bandmates hunt the Drummer down the streets of New Orleans. A novel soaked in sex, drugs, and tequila, The Drummer is a stiff cocktail of crotch-grabbing hair-metal and New Orleans noir.		Anthony Neil Smith is the author of Psychosomatic, Yellow Medicine, and Hogdoggin, and for five years was the co-editor of Plots With Guns, an online crime writing journal that released a print anthology of defining stories last fall. A guitarist since he was thirteen, Smith tried to put together a number of bands but could never find a drummer. Author's blog.
	* Notable Book of 2006. -January Magazine "Smith writes with force and clarity." -Chicago Tribune "Emotionally raw and stylistically adventureous." -Mystery Scene "A fun read about drugs, rock and roll, brawls and banging (drums, groupies, and otherwise)." -Publishers Weekly "Anthony Neil Smith is a man with more than enough experience and balls to write noir the way it should be written: hard and fast with a twist of gallows humor to make it go down smooth. As with his first novel, Psychosomatic, The Drummer is sharp and expertly written. But The Drummer has an accessibility that will make this the book to read this summer." -Crime Spree		"The Drummer has it all. An Eighties rock star on the run. A lead singer who chokes on his own vomit. Blackmail and pain pills. Women who use sex to get what they want. All in America's mecca of sin, New Orleans. Anthony Neil Smith has penned a masterpiece of heavy metal noir." -Victor Gischler "The Drummer solidies Anthony Neil Smith's growing reputation as a fearless prose electrician: standing in water, handling bare wires, delivering raw voltage straight to the page." -Sean Doolittle "The future is assured. The future is Anthony Neil Smith. Let the devil rejoice." -Ken Bruen
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