Book Spotlight: Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat by Andrez Bergen

Cut to Melbourne, Australia--the most glamorous city in the world. It also happens to be the only one left standing, but nevermind that, we're there now and I'd like you to meet your narrator, a certain Floyd Maquina, a likable chap with one hell of a story to share. See, the powers that be are knuckling down on the Deviant menace that plagues the city, and our boy Floyd's unknowingly got himself in the thick of it. Cue guns, intrigue, kidnappings, conspiracy and all sorts of general mayhem that make for cracking good headlines. Does Floyd stop the bad guys? Does he get the girl? Does he make Humphrey Bogart proud? Grab some popcorn and read on.


Read the reviews!

“A jam‐packed roller coaster that’s as affecting as it is exciting and gripping.”

IMPACT MAGAZINE

“A cigar‐puffing, whiskey‐sipping, piano playing bar lout.”

SOLARCIDE

"Andrez Bergen put science fiction, noir, Australia and Japan into a literary hadron collider and Tobacco‐Stained Mountain Goat came out."

THE THOUSANDS MAGAZINE

“Flows effortlessly; smart, mesmerizingly dark and difficult to put down.”

VICE MAGAZINE

"At the heart of Bergen’s novel is the love affair our author has with popular culture…bursting with nods and homages to everything from Humphrey Bogart to Mobile Suit Gundam."

VERBICIDE

"Innovative, quirky, at times hilarious... this is as challenging as it is a roller coaster ride."

BEAT MAGAZINE

"Such an engrossing and visual read—gorgeous, subtle moments in there as well."

LIP MAGAZINE

“A Third Man/Matrix/Blade Runner/Dashiell Hammett melange that is engrossing, intriguing and surprising!”

PATRICIA MAUNDER (THE AGE)

“Tobacco Stained Mountain Goat is an incredible novel, completely unexpected and with such a wonderfully rich and unique style that is simply mesmerizing, unmissable."

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Andrez Bergen is an expatriate Australian journalist, musician, photographer, DJ, artist, some‐time filmmaker, writer, wayward graphic designer, and ad hoc beer and sake connoisseur who's been entrenched in Tokyo, Japan, for the past 10 years. Under the alias of Industrial Form, he dabbled with graf, then moved on to audio/visual art installations for
events put on by pioneering Melbourne experimental electronic music label IF? Records (which he now helms). He currently creates music under the pseudonyms Little Nobody and Funk Gadget.

Andrez has written for the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper in Japan, The Age newspaper, and VICE Magazine in Australia, American mags Anime Insider and Geek Monthly (ex‐Cinefantastique), Impact and Mixmag in the UK, and various other publications, on movies, music, anime, culture, travel, food, etc.