Adam Howe

ONE TOUGH BASTARD described in two words: Fu**ing HILARIOUS! It's an homage to those buddy-buddy action movies we've all seen, from Tango and Cash to The Expendables. Kurt Russell & Stallone. Will Smith & Martin Lawrence. And now, Shane Moxie & Duke. The ape. Yep. An ape.

Shane Moxie has his head up his butt most of the time. His head is pretty big, but it does fit up there. His hey-day is long over, though you couldn't tell by looking at him, (except for maybe that flab on his chest that show more used to be muscle.) He's still sporting that rat-tail and a mullet, and his clothing isn't much better. He's obsessed with making a comeback and it's not looking good. He's had a falling out with Duke and never much cared for him anyway. Shane tries to kickstart his comeback by appearing with a different ape and passing him off as Duke. How will that go, do you think? Will Shane's comeback attempt be successful? You'll have to read this to find out!

I have never laughed so hard reading a book in my entire life. Shane Moxie is beyond full of himself and no one takes him seriously, least of all the reader. He calls the few female fans he still has "Moxettes," but of course, being Shane Moxie, he treats them like crap. He's claimed so often that he was in the military, he actually believes it himself.

Match up Moxie with Duke, the signing ape and it's a recipe for disaster. Duke hates Moxie...for reasons, but ends up having to work with the idiot anyway. (How bad does one need to be to look like an idiot, as compared to an ape?) Duke knows sign language and now, thanks to technology, he can actually talk. (In the voice of Kevin Spacey, but it's talking just the same.) The two try to work together, often with disastrous results and it's just...funny.

I'm not saying anything else about the plot because it should be related as the author intended. You can expect lots of action and laughs-enough so that this book flies by and you'll find yourself sorry that it's already over.

Any time Adam Howe asks if I would read and review something, I say yes. That's because I know it's going to be both funny and supremely entertaining. ONE TOUGH BASTARD is no exception and for that reason I highly recommend it!

Available March 1, 2021!

*Thank you to Adam Howe for the e-ARC in exchange for my honest feedback. This is it!* show less

Adam Howe’s writing is so over the top, backwoods swamp honky tonk, upchucking, hilariously, side splitting funny, I am almost embarassed to say that I LOVE IT!

I am happy to be back with Reggie in the shithole strip club he bounces at. His life is one bad thing after another and I laugh my way through each adventure.

I don’t know how to describe this raunchy, uncouth, crude, twisted story, but, maybe, Southern pulp fiction is a start. Adam Howe’s imagination is so far out there, I show more wonder what he’s taking, and I’ll have some please! LOL

The donkey…OMG…the donkey…

As I read his notes about his research, I can only imagine what someone would think if they looked at his browser history.

I love how he makes fun about Nicholas Cage. I love Nic and some of the weird twisted movies he plays in. What’s even funnier, right after I finished reading this, I ended up watching Ghost Rider, a Nicholas Cage movie that, well, you have to see it to ‘believe’ it.

There is a bonus story – Clean Up On Aisle 3 – This is one robbery where the owner has a surprise that you will never see coming…and never want to.

I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of Tijuana Donkey Showdown by Adam Howe. show less

4.5 stars!

This is one of the funniest books I've read in my entire life.

Reggie Levine is the likable bouncer at The Henhouse and just wants to disappear into the men's room with his magazine and do his business. Unfortunately, he's unable to do that. Local used car guru Harry is busy getting his head dunked in the only toilet bowl available and it's making a damn mess. So begins Tijuana Donkey Showdown.

Off the top of my head this story features: an extremely well endowed drug mule, (and show more when I say mule, I mean a jackass and when I say well endowed I mean WELL endowed), a circus strongman, a sexy veterinarian, a gas station/zoo, (WTF??), a Chinese Crested Terrier that likes to hump legs, an overweight stripper and, (wait for it)....Nic Cage. (That's right, he spells it Nic. Supposedly, what do I know?)

I laughed out loud for most of the time I was reading this book. My husband thought I was nuts last night, and my coworkers though the same, just now at lunch. When I thought things could not go more over the top, they did just that.

This story was fast paced and in your face! I recommend it to fans of down and dirty stories that leave no holds barred. You might be offended, you might think it's disgusting, but I guarantee you this-you WILL be laughing. Well done, Mr. Howe! Well done!

You can buy your copy here: Tijuana Donkey Showdown

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Gator Bait is a taut, toothy grin from beginning to end.

You know you’re in for a rollicking ride when the spilled blood soaks in to the sawdust floor, and Smitty Three Fingers plays that bad boy boogie on the ol’ pee-anna down at The Grinnin’ Gator.
Author Adam Howe sets this blistering story of backwoods noir in Prohibition-era America, and populates his seedy gin joint with lunkhead henchmen, a fabulous femme fatale and a possessive proprietor who Smitty should steer well clear of. show more He doesn’t, of course, and almost immediately he’s up to his ass in less than allegorical alligators.

Howe hits all the right notes with his dry dialogue and single-line descriptions that skilfully skewer their subjects. He submerges the reader in the stink, sweat and threats of a suffocating swamp honkytonk without wasting a word and delivers Deep South dialect with aplomb. Honing a truly hardboiled story – even a relatively short novella like this one – is a tougher trick than it looks, and many writers simply can’t sustain the sardonic tone of a knowing narrative for the entire tale. Adam Howe makes it look easy.

You won’t find deep philosophical debate or 21st century angst in this story. Instead it’s a solid rendition of old-skool noir: deeply nasty in parts; intense, explicit and exhilarating throughout. A great way to meet an intriguing new author.
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