New York Graphic - Softcover

"For those who like their comedy very black, a brilliantly scabrous portrait of urban life." --The Bookseller

"A compulsively readable debut."--Publishing Weekly

"Well-written, bursting with panache, [New York Graphic] should probably carry a public health warning. Read and enjoy."--The Tangled Web

"A disturbing and dazzlingly assured achievement."--The Observer (London)

"You will be helplessly hooked by [New York Graphic].... Sick, cynical, and rather wonderful" ----Time Out London

Meet Virgil Strauss: a physically and emotionally unkempt tabloid photographer who prowls the night streets of New York, camera loaded, bearing witness to the seediest, most malevolent and obscene viscera of the city he loves. Virgil is a professional ambulance-chaser, dreaming of the day when his work will be published in the city's renowned shock-based daily paper, The New York Graphic. But to get into the pages of the Graphic, Virgil needs the picture of a lifetime.
Then Larry Onions, a nickel-and-dime con artist and Virgil's only friend, concocts a robbery scheme audacious enough to make his fortune, get Virgil a staff job on the Graphic, and spark a bizarre series of consequences ranging from grave-robbing to being an FBI informant.