âAn incredibly interesting work.â âJane Smiley
âA straight up masterwork.â âSarah Silverman
âBlisteringly funny.â âCorey Seymour
âA transcendent apocalyptic satire.â âMichael Silverblatt
âCrackling with life.â âPaul Theroux
âGreat fun.â âSalman Rushdie
âA provocative debut.â âKirkus Reviews
From legendary actor and activist Sean Penn comes a scorching, âcharmingly weirdâ (Booklist, starred review) novel about Bob Honeyâa modern American man, entrepreneur, and part-time assassin.
Bob Honey has a hard time connecting with other people, especially since his divorce. Heâs tired of being marketed to every moment, sick of a world where even an orgasm isnât real until it is turned into a tweet. A paragon of old-fashioned American entrepreneurship, Bob sells septic tanks to Jehovahâs Witnesses and arranges pyrotechnic displays for foreign dictators. Heâs also a contract killer for an off-the-books program run by a branch of United States intelligence that targets the elderly, the infirm, and others who drain society of its resources.
When a nosy journalist starts asking questions, Bob canât decide if itâs a chance to form some sort of new friendship or the beginning of the end for him. With treason on everyoneâs lips, terrorism in everyoneâs sights, and American political life sinking to ever-lower standards, Bob decides itâs time to make a changeâif he doesnât get killed by his mysterious controllers or exposed in the rapacious media first.
A thunderbolt of startling images and painted âwith a broadly satirical, Vonnegut-ian brushâ (Kirkus Reviews), Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff is one of the year's most controversial and talked about literary works.