Chop Suey (A Darby Stansfield Thriller) [Kindle Edition]

Ty Hutchinson (Author)

Book Description

A Kindle Top 100 Best Seller in Suspense & Police Procedural

2nd Edition

CHOP SUEY is the first book in the wildly popular, Darby Stansfield thriller series.

Add one lovable dope looking for love.
Layer in a vicious serial killer.
Throw in a couple of gang members.
Mix in a pair of Chinatown detectives.
Combine it all with Ling Chi, death by 1,000 cuts.
And you have the perfect recipe for Chop Suey.

When disgraced sales associate Darby Stansfield discovers he has six months to save his job, he does what any normal person would do. He freaks.

Desperate to resurrect his career at Teleco Wireless, Darby conjures up an international scheme filled with the promise of endless, high-spending clients. It's brilliant, it's international, it would have his boss snooping and his best friend sweating, but it has Darby on a plane to Hong Kong where he signs his latest client, a Chinese gang.

Meanwhile, bodies are piling up in San Francisco and Darby has no idea that his brilliant plan has just put him on a collision course with the killer. 

To make matters worse, his best friend and his girlfriend find themselves caught up in his dangerous plan. Darby must now make a tough decision -- give up on the one good idea he ever had or risk it all.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Lightning-fast plotting, unforgettable characters and dialogue that rings with more truth than fortune cookies at a drunken mid-life crisis lunch. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!" --Author Dani Amore

"CHOP SUEY is a fast, funny and well-plotted thriller.... It's not easy to write comedy, introduce a vicious serial killer, and navigate successfully between the two." --Reading Review.

"It is both intrinsically funny and inherently evil, a strangely intoxicating blend, one that keeps the action rolling." --SeattlePI

"Hutchinson did an excellent job of bringing his characters to life, weaving several stories together and bringing them to an exciting conclusion." --The Book Review


"It takes a lot of skill to mix laugh-out loud funny with hardcore crime and have both be believable." -- Elizabeth White Reviews

Readers describe the series as Tarantino meets The Office with a splash of romance.

From the Back Cover

CHOP SUEY is a 90,000 word action thriller. That's 380 pages of holy moly.

STROGANOV is book two in the series and is available now.

Product Details

• File Size: 522 KB
• Print Length: 386 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Gangkruptcy Press; 2 edition (November 15, 2012)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B004YKZP0M
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #129,340 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 21 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars a giggle, a chuckle, and out right laughter May 18, 2011

By lodolphin

Format:Paperback

This book is great. Immediately into it, I was hooked. I didn't want to put it down. The characters all come alive and I could envision them as I read. It was fantastic! It is a quick read that you will NOT WANT TO MISS! I look forward to another Darbytastic idea to read about... but a request- probably won't happen, somehow, will Chu be back? I like him!!!!
The author did a phenomenal job bringing the characters to life and had me laughing the whole trip!

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Equal parts really good and really bad. June 26, 2011

By Tiffany

Format:Paperback

Darby is conceited, self-centered, ungrateful, lazy, spiteful, racist, sexist, and a shopaholic with a one-track mind...but in the 100+ chapters, he kind of grows on you. Like a malignant tumor.

The story is interesting, engaging, and funny. There were a couple of times that I could not move from my spot for hours on end, fearing for what would happen next to our (extremely) unlikely hero. But there were more times that I could not wait for it to be over. I guess I'm giving it three stars because there were equal parts really good and really bad.

My friend said the summary sounded like a bad Steven Seagal movie. After reading the book, I tend to agree.

First but definitely not foremost, this novel could definitely use another proofread. There were numerous grammatical errors and skipped words that jolted me out of the story and made it a little difficult to read. There was also a lot of switching back and forth between past and present tense. I don't think my inner grammar Nazi will ever recover from those eye twitches.

Another thing that annoyed me was the amount of unnecessary detail. No, I don't need to know what each person wore or what each person ate every single time a new scene starts. This, I think, helped contribute to the length (and tediousness) of the book.

Tavish, Darby's so-called "best friend," had basically no personality. The book would give a general statement about him, providing maybe one example, then never mention it again. He was pretty much just Darby's conscience, and his constantly saying "No, this is stupid," got pretty old. Nevertheless, I'd have to agree with him.

The other, more interesting characters were probably one-hit wonders. Leslie Choi, Chu, Mr. Fu were all great. They had depth and intelligence, and were very relatable. Definitely don't belong in Darby's world.

The ending sucked, too. I won't give it away in case you still want to read it, but be prepared with low standards.

Okay, enough of the bad stuff; this novel was actually pretty good.

I loved the few scenes in Leslie's point of view. It really got into her method of coming up with hypotheses, discarding them, coming up with new ones, and pursuing them to the edge of sanity. The scenes from the point of view of The Voice were pretty bone-chilling, too. The parallelisms in their obsessions were pretty amusing and thought-provoking at the same time.

The plot twists were unexpected (always a good thing), and it really lived up to its name as a thriller.

To sum all that up: bad writing, good story. Won't read the sequel, won't read it again. But it was pretty good while it lasted.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Crazy amounts of fun October 18, 2012

By ESCAPE CRAVER

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

This was a crazy fun book for me! The comedy element, especially in the beginning, was off the charts, laugh out loud funny. Ty Hutchinson made me a fan with this one.

More About the Author

My name is Ty Hutchinson.

Most days I'm a writer in the ad business. My work has appeared in all the major advertising award shows and reported on in publications like Advertising Age, Creativity, Communication Arts and Archive.

While advertising is a blast, I wanted to tell stories that were bigger. I've since created the Darby Stansfield thrillers and a few other pager turners. I've recently released Corktown, the first book in my new series featuring FBI Agent, Abby Kane. You can visit my blog at tyhutchinson.com for the latest on my books and what's going on in my head. Be sure to take the Darby Poll while you're there.

When I'm not building brands or writing thrillers, you'll find me traveling the world, playing video games, eating, reading, and exploring SF's Chinatown.

I love hearing from my readers. Feel free to email at thutchinson @ me dot com

Be sure to take the Darby Poll on my website.

Amazon Author Rankbeta 

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#50 in Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Mystery & Thrillers > Police Procedurals

#62 in Books > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Police Procedurals

#50 in Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Mystery & Thrillers > Police Procedurals

#62 in Books > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Police Procedurals