Promo Cowboy

"A smart, well-plotted, genre-bending mystery set in the high-stakes world of TV production." -Kirkus ReviewsFROM THE AUTHOR OF "LIFE ASKEW"... It's the turn of the millennium in New York City, and Promo Cowboy is one of television's most colorful Writer-Producers, a hard-drinking, old-school freelancer at the dawn of the digital age, with a reputation to protect and a dwindling clientele. Competition for promo gigs is fiercer than ever-but fierce enough to kill? Enter a serial strangler with a fetish for old videotape, who targets Cowboy's co-workers at networks and stations all over town. With colleagues dropping dead at an astonishing rate, our hero is busier than ever, but the NYPD and the tabloids start fixing their gaze on only one man.Crime novel, satire, TV-industry expose'... "Promo Cowboy" celebrates the unsung creative heroes who bring television to its dizziest heights, and slimiest depths. Fellow producers, editors, art directors, musicians, marketing and station executives-any of them might be the killer, even Promo Cowboy himself BARRY FITZSIMMONS surprised readers with "Life Askew," his hilarious debut novel of megastore marketing gone amok. Now, the TV veteran-turned-author returns with a narrative that's closer to home. With "Promo Cowboy," Fitzsimmons channels Elmore Leonard and Cormac McCarthy, again leveraging his unique perspective and fertile imagination in this humorous and very American literary work.