Kinky meets the Village Irregulars for the first time. His pal, Ratso Sloman suggests Kinky become a private investigator because of his weird way at looking at things. KinkyÆs first client is Abby Hoffman, who is being stalked by a dangerous person, who ultimately blows up the KinksterÆs Manhattan apartment, making the case suddenly very personal.

BLAST FROM THE PAST may be the best Kinky Friedman novel of them all. The eccentric reoccurring characters come to life and their relationship to Kinky is groovy. The setting is vintage Greenwich Village as seen through a purple haze of smoke. The story line is raunchy humor with a bittersweet message about the ultimate results of the sixties idealism- or was it naivety? In his eleventh Kinky novel, Mr. Friedman demonstrates he is one of the best at humorously trivializing society.