Long Lost Dog of It

June 5th, 2011. The streets of Athens are draped in a thick fog of tension. Hundreds of thousands of activists line the streets to protest the bankrupt government's austerity measures. Riot police patrol the crowd and set up barricades across key intersections.

A toothless vagrant scrambles to stay ahead of his past, a young couple struggles to piece their relationship back together, and a killer realizes too late that his number is up. Over the course of 48 hours, they will navigate a labyrinth of sex shows and dive bars, mob fronts and punk shows, fighting both their inner demons and the very real demon stalking the streets with a machine gun in his bag: a sociopathic hitman dressed to the nines and obsessed with JFK.

"If there's an antecedent [to Long Lost Dog Of It] in noir literature, it's David Goodis and his dreamy portrayals of losers and the low life, where the hardboiled stuff is punctuation, not purpose." --Nick Mamatas, THE BIG CLICK

"Kazepis' debut grabs Amerikani noir by the throat and drops it headfirst in Greece's streets, bars, small rooms, and strip clubs. Reeking of booze and cigarette smoke and jittery from too much caffeine, Long Lost Dog Of It is an elegant, violent, smutty, heart-wrenching novel stuffed with a bizarre sense of nostalgia and an international flair currently lacking in most contemporary crime fiction. With its language and sharp dialogue, LLDOI does for Athens what Woodrell did for the Ozarks. Yeah, this is a hell of an intimidating debut." --Gabino Iglesias, author of Gutmouth

"Michael Kazepis' Long Lost Dog of It is David Lynch meets Pulp Fiction meets government conspiracy fiction (think Three Days of the Condor), spiked with a certain dose of what-the-fuck-ness." --COMPLEX

"If you leave these pages with dust on your tongue and blood in your hair, don't say I didn't warn you. Long Lost Dog Of It sticks to you, like thighs on black vinyl." --Violet LeVoit, author of I Am Genghis Cum

"Honestly, the last book I recently read that triggered so many resonant echoes, and haunted me this hard, was Don DeLillo's White Noise. A very different book. But sensorially the closest." --John Skipp, FANGORIA