If you enjoy snarky movies by Guy Ritchie, Quentin Tarantino, and crave for that cinematic charm to saunter over to the books, then you’re going to get a real kick out of Nate Granzow’s Get Idiota. A cartel capo obsessed with foosball and murdering journalists, a down-on-his-luck travel writer looking to make a name for himself and his sticky-fingered friend, and one sexy female assassin. It’s the complete package of sheer madness.
When travel writer Nick Ripley’s life comes crashing down after being suckered into a Ponzi scheme, he is desperate enough to do something foolish. That’s when a job comes down the pipeline to interview a cartel capo obsessed with foosball tournaments. Another known fact about Antonio Espinar is his penchant for brutally murdering journalists. Seeing the interview as an opportunity to make big bucks and gain publicity, Ripley decides to fly to Mexico and talk to Espinar, enlisting the help of an old friend with some not-so-legible habits. What starts off as a simple interview turns into a complicated affair as Ripley bites off more than he can chew. Hilarious chaos ensues and it’s way too wild to even describe here. It’s best read straight from the words of Nate Granzow.
Get Idiota is pure mayhem with non-stop action on foot, in car, and in the air with bullets blazing past Ripley, his friend, and their traveling companion in the form of Espinar’s pet emu, all in a fun kinetic style to pump you full of adrenaline. The action sequences are infused with well-timed and brilliantly executed comedic relief that will make you laugh without a care in the world and then wince right after. It’s one thing after another as Ripley jumps from one dangerous spot into an even more dangerous but hilarious predicament.
Granzow makes his characters charming, witty, and unfailingly human through enjoyable dialogues and clumsy moments that highlight the absurd yet believable plights of the protagonists, whether its blood-thirsty cartel capos or a sanctuary of women wanting to mate with traveling men and then killing them in brutal ways. You won’t want this book to end. Not even for the sake of closure.
Get Idiota is a bona-fide adventure in the truest sense of the word and it's some of the most fun you’ll have. Nate Granzow is officially in my list of go-to authors for ballistic action and refreshing adventures.
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