One Shot Amigo

By Miguel Lasala

"One Shot Amigo teleports you back to late nineties NYC like tapping a vein and streaming a direct vertigo feed so intense it's dislocating as it is delirious. The voice of daydreaming antihero Carl Shoe is noir bebop poetry that morphs on a dime from lust to anger to hope and heartbreak that lingers like smoke to twist in your head days after turning the last page."

-Will Christopher Baer, author of Kiss Me, Judas

Carl Shoe arrives in New York City with a machete and a camera, fully prepared to become the next Eugene Smith. What he finds instead are dead-end jobs, cheap rooms, and a string of dick-punch realities delivered by an indifferent world. When Cora-an accomplished but mysterious photographer-tells him to go south, he's swept into a "too good to be true" opportunity that leads to a relentless, hallucinatory search for a missing woman in Costa Rica.More than noir, One Shot Amigo is a broken prayer whispered through a viewfinder-a story about chasing beauty in a world that eats its dreamers alive. It's lyrical, raw, and haunted by the idea that 1/1000th of a second is all that stands between success and failure, ambition and delusion, and life and death.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GFKKQ4P2
• ISBN13: 9798999537300
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Whiskey Bay Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"