When you hire C. Card, you've scraped the bottom off the barrel of a private investigator. And when Card is hired to steal a body from the morgue, he needs to stop dreaming, find ammo for his gun and get there before someone else does.

Not since trout fishing in America has Brautigan so successfully combined his wild sense of humor with his famous poetic imagination. In this parody of a cool crime novel, the adventures of a seedy, not too bright S. Card give pleasure to both the mind and the heart.