James Flynn is an expert shot, a black belt in karate, fluent in four languages and irresistible to women. He's also a heavily medicated patient in a Los Angeles psychiatric hospital. Flynn believes his locked ward is the headquarters of Her Majesty's Secret Service and that he is a secret agent with a license to kill.
When the hospital is acquired by a new HMO, Flynn is a convinced that the Secret Service has been infiltrated by the enemy. He escapes to save the day and carjacks a young orderly named Sancho.
This crazy day trip turns into a very real adventure when Flynn is mistaken for an actual secret agent. Paranoid delusions have suddenly become reality, and now it's up to a mental patient and a terrified orderly to bring down an insecure, evil genius bent on world domination.
I completely stumbled on this book because I was trying to find a new "Y" title for that alphabet challenge. I typed "You" into the search box for Kindle Unlimited and I scrolled.
And I scrolled.
And I scrolled a bit more.
Eventually the cover caught my eye and then the description didn't sound awful so I figured all I had to lose was some time and patience and I would go in search of another "Y" on another day.
I ended up not losing anything at all except for some calories since, after all, laughing burns calories and I cannot remember the last time I laughed at a book this hard. It was probably a Christopher Moore, Neil Gaiman or Jason Pargin book ... which puts Haris Orkin in the most excellent company.
James Flynn -- hero-extraordinaire of Haris Orkin's You Only Live Once -- is like the lovechild of James Bond and Don Quixote... if they used Catherine Tate's Nan as a surrogate.
I know.
It's still a little hard to wrap my brain around and I just read it.
It is oddly wonderful and it works so well that I'm already adding the next two books in the series to my TBR and hoping for more. I could definitely see this turning into a screenplay -- which is something that Orkin already has experience in doing. In my head I've already got Daniel Craig as Flynn (since he's not Bond anymore) and Tony Revolori as Sancho. Dulcie? I'm totally stumped so I think you need to go read it yourself and then fill in the missing name for me ...
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3 comments:
Funny how you came about this book.I hope after all that scrolling it is a winner. Sounds like it has potential.
These excerpts sound interesting.
Thank you for the shout-out! And the suggestion of Tony Revolori for Sancho. I've been watching "Murders In The Building" and was thinking Selena Gomez might make a good Dulcie.
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