THERE WAS A MAN who called himself Coyote. He blew up bridges to clear-cut logging sites. He liberated zoos, and torched shopping malls in the night. Then he died, twenty years ago, in a botched factory sabotage. Or did he?
“The poet collides with the cop! In this new epic, Coyote, Brian Brett has sliced and diced the genres of fiction and created a unique, philosophic novel full of picaresque oddballs and environmental monkey wrenching.” — William Deverell
A terrifying and troubled ‘Brian’ doesn’t believe it — he’s come to Artemis Island to find a ‘retired’ Coyote, and kill him. It will be one of several murders.
A trickster novel, Coyote, explores the false logic of environmental terrorism, and the even crazier logic of the pathological killer. Never have ethical arguments been so much fun, and never have they encountered such scary monsters.
14 years in the writing, Coyote is as full of surprises as the natural world we live in. Brett is even more dangerous than an ecoerrorist like Coyote, because his weapons are stories.A terrifying and troubled ‘Brian’ doesn’t believe it — he’s come to Artemis Island to find a ‘retired’ Coyote, and kill him. It will be one of several murders.
There was a man who sat like a Buddha atop his tree house, seeking atonement for his crimes. There was the daughter of a junkie hooker. There was a sweetly anarchic island filled with eccentric islanders, as well as a rock that danced, and a saucy, hard-drinking parrot, and the strange, damaged boy for whom this novel was written.
ISBN 1894345535
426 pages
$21.95