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The Last Bad Job by Dodds, Colin is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Last Bad Job about?
The Last Bad Job is the story of a reporter with a hell of an assignment: Five months on a New Mexico desert compound to cover what may be the next Jonestown. For the reporter, it could be a career-maker. But when a cult member close to him drowns herself, he decides to run for it, and sets unimaginable events into motion. What ensues is a dark and comic journey through sex, drugs, cults, suicide, the apocalypse, and what comes after it.Available for the first time from the author of the widely acclaimed novels Another Broken Wizard and What Smiled at Him comes The Last Bad Job—a book the late Norman Mailer touted as showing “something that very few writers have; a species of inner talent that owes very little to other people.”Praise for Colin Dodds’ What Smiled at Him “The novel has an angry edge to it, recalling the spirit of the Beats. Many of the peripheral characters speak like prophets... Marv and Lynn are just as self-aware as their supporting cast, and their abundance of wisdom sometimes stretches believability; it’s tempered, however, by the flaw of their continually self-destructive behavior. Watching them ignore their better instincts... makes the characters more endeari
Who reads The Last Bad Job?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Dodds, Colin
- Publisher
- Createspace
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Rating
- 2.83 / 5 (137 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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