If Raymond Carver and Elmore Leonard had a love child, Jack Smith would be it. In AMOR FATI, Smith has given his fans a darkly comic novel, the dialogue and action breakneck, the questionable decisions accruing with an inevitability that makes it impossible to stop turning the pages.

Christine Sneed, Author of THE VIRGINITY OF FAMOUS MEN

Jack Smith does it again with Amor Fati: an uncommon premise, snappy and engaging dialogue, quirkiness and oddity that will keep you both smiling and turning pages. Read this book!"

Mark Wish, Pushcart-Prize-Winning author of NECESSARY DEEDS

In this satirical amalgam of good and evil, Jack Smith has welded together a story of Love, Law, The Mob, Comparison Shopping, Money, Hit Men, and Impetuous Youth. Frederick lives on the edge but wants to live like a prince with Lilac, his princess, and his red sports car. But life isn't easy for a boy on the outside and when the Law gets him by the throat, his life takes a left turn. Pay up or it's prison, son. Look at this tale as a tour de force rich with dialogue, character, action, and think "the deep belly laugh of the cosmic guffaw." Nothing is sacred in this modern-day Romeo and Juliet with an urban twist. Yes, love does find a way but not the way you'd expect. Great fun. A fast read.

Jack Remick, Author of MAN ALONE, GABRIELA AND THE WIDOW

The narrative of Jack Smith's AMOR FATI doesn't move so much on a straight line as it does on a wheel of fate with the spokes of love spinning this tale down avenues of escalating chaos. It's a trenchant attack on the American Dream, emphasizing the dark side of debts and loans and more debts and loans. And as always, Smith's trademark dialogue is crisp, original, and full of comical non-sequiturs and zingers. An absolute hoot!

Grant Tracey, Author of the HAYDEN FULLER MYSTERY SERIES and Editor, North American Review