This is the fourth of Kinky Friedman's internationally acclaimed mystery novels, republished with a new introduction by the author. Assisted by his Village Irregulars - Ratso, McGovern and real-life private eye Steve Rambam - Kinky is on the trail of a missing person, a Nazi conspiracy and a mysterious white tiger with blue eyes.
From Frequent Flyer:
"I'd gotten the phone call the afternoon before. I'd been dozing at the desk in my loft in the Village. It was a stranger's voice saying 'You were a friend of John Morgan's, weren't you?' One of those awkward, unsettling moments in life just before the past tense hits you like the Sunset Limited."
" … I was confused, but I didn't think it was the time or place to raise my hand and ask for a point of clarification. I kept my thoughts to myself as I grimly watched them lower the casket into the frozen ground. Five years can change somebody, I thought. But never that much. No, I wasn't imagining things. I couldn't stop the funeral. And there was something else I couldn't stop. I couldn't stop wondering. Why was the body they were burying not John Morgan?"
"The world's funniest, bawdiest and most politically incorrect music singer turned mystery writer." (New York Times Book Review)
"Brace yourself, this is seriously funny." (Glen Baxter)
"Smart, funny and tough." (Robert B. Parker, author)
"A true Texas legend."(President George W. Bush)
"Dear Kinky, I have now read all of your books. More, please. I really need the laughs." (former) President Bill Clinton)
"The Sam Spade of South Texas. Only soft boiled. And hipper. And funnier." (Sunday Mail)
From the Author's Introduction: "By the time I was finishing Frequent Flyer, the fourth book in the series, it was 1988 and I'd been living at our family ranch in Texas for three or four years. All the while, my vision of New York had been growing more and more vivid in my mind. Indeed, it was almost like living in New York without having to worry about parking. It seemed that the further that I got away from the city, and the more serene and bucolic my environment, the more powerful New York became in my imagination..."
Vandam Press is proud to be able to make this remarkable novel available to Kinky’s old friends and to those readers who are discovering Kinky Friedman for the first time.