When you hire CCard you have scraped the bottom of the private eye barrel & when Card is hired to steal a body from the morgue he needs to stop dreaming find bullets for his gun & get there before someone else does Not since Trout Fishing in America has Brautigan so successfully combined his wild sense of humour with his famous poetic imagination In this parody of the hard-boiled crime novel the adventures of seedy not-too-bright CCard are a delight to both the mind & the heart