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ROAD KILL
By Kinky Friedman
Ballantine Books, 1998, trade paperback, $11.95 (252 pp).
Reviewed by Shirley H. Wetzel
On a bleak winter day in NYC, a glum and dispirited Kinky Friedman, country singer turned private eye, looks into his bathroom mirror and sees a gypsy who tells him, among other things, to get out of town. The voice of the gypsy is strangely familiar. When the Kinkster is called upon to travel with his old pal Willie Nelson and figure out who’s trying to kill the singer-songwriter, he realizes why.
Kinky suspects the would-be killer is one of Willie’s "97 ex-wives." It might also have to do with an Indian curse stemming from an unfortunate incident with Willie’s bus and a Native American medicine man in the Arizona desert. Willie has always been loved and respected by most Native Americans, so the arrows flying through the window of Kinky’s Greenwich Village loft and the mysterious deerskin-wrapped bundle with its dangerous bad medicine don’t make sense.
Aided by his odd assembly of friends, Kinky solves the mystery and saves one of the last of the true American heroes.
Once again, Kinky magically and irreverently intertwines fact and fiction into a fine and funny yarn.
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