One morning, Mickey Finnegan, unemployed journalist, receives an odd telephone call from a woman he doesn?t know: Has he heard from Carole Rutland? Does he know where Carole is? These questions about Rutland, who used to live in the same rundown west-end Toronto rooming house with Mickey, set off a wild chase involving old friends, vicious enemies, dirty videos, academics, and an old Shakespearean manuscript? all leading to an inevitable explosion of violence. Carroll's style is edgy, cool, and inexorably gripping, and his characters are fascinating and original.

M. R. Carroll, author of Dead False, has, at various times, been a fruitpicker in England, a farm labourer in Manitoba, a theatre critic and magazine editor in Ottawa, and a teacher in Spain and Zimbabwe. For the past twelve years he has been a book editor in Toronto and Vancouver, where he currently resides. Carroll’s writing has appeared in publications across the country, including The Globe and Mail, Ottawa Citizen, The New Quarterly, The University of Toronto Review, and, most recently, in Georgia Straight.

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