During a trip to Thailand, Turk Henry, the overweight, unemployed, and super rich former bassist for a defunct megaplatinum-selling rock band, is forced to take on a whole new role as a hero when his supermodel wife is abducted by a group of renegade, shipless Thai pirates, the U.S. government refuses to help, and Thai law forbids him to pay a ransom. Original.
Mark Haskell Smith is the author of five novels, Moist, Delicious, Salty, Baked, and Raw, and the non-fiction Heart of Dankness: Underground Botanists, Outlaw Farmers, and the Race for the Cannabis Cup. His work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Vulture, National Post, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Smith is an award-winning screenwriter and assistant professor in the MFA program for Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts at the University of California, Riverside, Palm Desert Graduate Center. He lives in Los Angeles. He likes Mexican food.