Search
Log in
  • Home

  • Categories

  • Audiobooks

  • E-books

  • Magazines

  • For kids

  • Top lists

  • Help

  • Download app

  • Use campaign code

  • Redeem gift card

  • Try free now
  • Log in
  • Language

    🇸🇪 Sverige

    • SE
    • EN

    🇧🇪 Belgique

    • FR
    • EN

    🇩🇰 Danmark

    • DK
    • EN

    🇩🇪 Deutschland

    • DE
    • EN

    🇪🇸 España

    • ES
    • EN

    🇫🇷 France

    • FR
    • EN

    🇳🇱 Nederland

    • NL
    • EN

    🇳🇴 Norge

    • NO
    • EN

    🇦🇹 Österreich

    • AT
    • EN

    🇨🇭 Schweiz

    • DE
    • EN

    🇫🇮 Suomi

    • FI
    • EN
  1. Books
  2. Crime
  3. Noir crime

Read and listen for free for 42 days!

Cancel anytime

Try free now
0.0(0)

The Man Who Wouldn't Die : A Novel

""HBO's Silicon Valley meets The Big Sleep"" (Mark Maskell Smith): A hilarious neo-noir send-up of Silicon Valley, penned by an anonymous insider.

“DOES FOR SILICON VALLEY WHAT CARL HIAASEN DID FOR FLORIDA.” —Tim Dorsey

“THE MAN WHO WOULDN’T DIE IS DASHIELL HAMMETT 2.0: THE CLASSIC HARDBOILED DETECTIVE NOVEL, UPDATED FOR 21ST CENTURY SILICON VALLEY AND MADE HILARIOUS.” —Brad Parks

Silicon Valley scion Captain Don Donogue is dead under mysterious circumstances. In fact, he might’ve well have been murdered. Just ask Captain Don himself. He’s been sending messages about his suspicious death from beyond the grave. Yep, he’s been tweeting from the afterlife. Or so it seems.

Could life-after-death be Silicon Valley’s latest innovation? Our bodies die but our souls and social media accounts are eternal? This is the mystery that confronts the only sane person left in a region gone mad with greed, William Fitzgerald. Fitch. He’s a world-class detective, tough, stoic, carries a big fist and a flip phone. He’s a bad fit for Silicon Valley, where the law firms have drive-thru windows manned by barristeristas (who serve instant coffee and instant patents); attractive women aren’t MILF’s but TELFs (Tech Executives I’d Like To Fund); and couples are so anxious to get into the best free-play kindergartens that they get on the waiting list as soon as they freeze their sperm and eggs for later use.

One day, a woman knocks on Fitch’s door. She’s got a handful of cash and a wild story: She says that her father was Captain Don, or is Captain Don. He was killed, or maybe not. He’s tweeting from beyond. Fitch takes the case and goes into the belly of the valley, discovering that life and death, well, sometimes they’re just another transaction….

Original, clever, and hysterical, The Man Who Wouldn’t Die is the Carl Hiaasen of Silicon Valley and neo-noir at its unforgettable best.


Author:

  • A. B. Jewell

Narrator:

  • Kevin T. Collins

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 8 h 41 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Crime
  • Noir crime
  • Fiction
  • Comedic fiction

Others have also read

Skip the list
  1. FATZ 2 The Return : Fatman and the Zombies

    Dean John Thomas

    audiobook
  2. Yard Dog

    A. G. Pasquella

    audiobook
  3. Season of the Wind [Dramatized Adaptation]

    Ralph Cotton

    audiobook
  4. Zen

    A Wilson Steele

    audiobook
  5. The Zoo of Intelligent Animals

    D.A. Holdsworth

    audiobook
  6. Deadworld: Volume 1 [Dramatized Adaptation]

    Gary Reed

    audiobook
  7. The First Creatured Mission

    Tilly Jupiter

    audiobook
  8. The Adventures of Guy Noir

    Garrison Keillor

    audiobook
  9. The Trap

    A Wilson Steele

    audiobook
  10. Guy Noir and the Straight Skinny

    Garrison Keillor

    audiobook
  11. The Trouble With Aliens

    Christopher Anvil

    audiobook
  12. The Stars Now Unclaimed

    Drew Williams

    audiobookbook

  • 1 book

    A. B. Jewell

    A. B. Jewell is the pseudonym for a Pulitzer Prize–winning technology reporter. He lives in San Francisco.

    Read more

Help and contact


About us

  • Our story
  • Career
  • Press
  • Accessibility
  • Partner with us
  • Investor relations
  • Instagram
  • Facebook

Explore

  • Categories
  • Audiobooks
  • E-books
  • Magazines
  • For kids
  • Top lists

Popular categories

  • Crime
  • Biographies and reportage
  • Fiction
  • Feel-good and romance
  • Personal development
  • Children's books
  • True stories
  • Sleep and relaxation

Nextory

Copyright © 2025 Nextory AB

Privacy Policy · Terms ·
Excellent4.3 out of 5