Murder Bimbo

“Deviously intelligent...Irresistible.” —The New York Times Book Review • “Murder Bimbo is Gone Girl for the Luigi Mangione era.” —Catherine Lacey, author of Biography of X The exhilaratingly twisty story of a sex worker turned political assassin on the run, Murder Bimbo is a fiercely fresh take on truth, murder, and optics in our national moment that “will keep you on your toes” (Bustle). “I'm not a liar... I tell the truth at whatever cost. I tell the truth even if it means I have to edit a story for people to get the important parts.” A thirty-two-year-old sex worker is shocked when she's approached by undercover government agents to aid them in a top-secret plot to assassinate a politician known as Meat Neck. But once the deed is done, she realizes what made her the perfect recruit: She's 100% disposable. Holed up in an off-the-grid cabin in the woods, she now has only two days, her wits, and a laptop to save her own life. Deciding her best bet is to reach out to the feminist investigative podcast Justice for Bimbos and appeal to the host to tell her story, she the newly self-styled “Murder Bimbo” lays out her truth in a hastily typed series of emails and presses send. Then she starts a new email. This time, it's addressed to her ex, and the facts line up a little differently...

Rebecca Novack grew up in the Rocky Mountains. She has a master's in theological studies from Harvard Divinity school.