Stefan O. Rak narrates the book and plays every character.
Audiobook edition
Rent Your Brain
Adventuresof Bastardand M.E.
Recently revived private detective Bastard gets a call from M.E., walks under a billboard loud enough to taste, and follows Free-Enterprise 999 into the room where balls, drugs, law, memory, and friendship all start misbehaving.
Narrated by Stefan O. Rak. The novel is available now in paperback and ebook.
Absurdist noir
F-E 999 transmissions
White Dove operation
Metropolisse after dark
Voicebox
Messages recovered from the machine.
Five one-minute signals from the opening chapters. Bastard, M.E., F-E 999, and the Organization come through in fragments. Stefan O. Rak narrates and plays every character.
The recording
The author is inside the machine.
This edition returns the novel to Stefan O. Rak's own voice: narrated by the author, with every character performed by him. The result is not a generic reading. It is the book as a performed system, passed through a small organization of recording, editing, music, and trouble.
Produced and recorded by James Lefkowitz, edited by Boris Jonez.
Mixed and mastered by Mike Pride at Farming Studio; guitar by Mike Pride with Chris Welcome and Lisa Mezzacappa.
A direct MP3 download edition. No app required.
The novel
Adventures of Bastard and M.E.
Bastard and Miguel Evangelista reconnect after exile and death, then assemble the Organization for a job involving rented brains, institutional drug dependency, false testimony, and a wonder-drug called White Dove.
A private-eye plot mutates into corporate phone-tree nonsense, criminal tenderness, and sentences that keep changing shape while they are still in your ear.
- Publisher
- Whisk(e)y Tit
- Publication date
- February 14, 2018
- ISBN
- 978-0996764650
- Print/ebook
- $15 paperback / $8 ebook
Evidence
A criminal comic signal with its own weather.
Whisk(e)y Tit published the novel in 2018, giving the audiobook a real literary source instead of a storefront-only premise.
The book lives near absurdist noir, subversive science fiction, psychedelic satire, detective trouble, and a city with too many official explanations.
The audiobook keeps the author's timing, character shifts, and comic suspicion in the foreground, where the sentences can move.
Questions
Delivery,Samples,Paper.
How will I get the audiobook?
When checkout opens, the download link will be sent to your email automatically.
What format will it be?
Chapter-separated MP3 files, delivered as a direct download. No special app required.
Who performs it?
Stefan O. Rak narrates the audiobook and plays all of its characters.
Can I hear it first?
Yes. The voicebox has one-minute samples from the opening chapters.
Is the print edition still available?
Yes. The paperback and ebook are available now through Whisk(e)y Tit.
Audiobook
The direct audiobook edition is being prepared.
Runtime, price, and checkout will appear here when the release opens. Until then, the paperback and ebook remain available through Whisk(e)y Tit.
Published by Fun Hole Music, BMI. Text copyright © 2018 by Stefan O. Rak, published by Whisk(e)y Tit Books. Audiobook copyright © 2026 by Stefan O. Rak and James Lefkowitz. All rights reserved.
Guitar transmission