‘The Roaches Have No King isn’t just amazingly funny, it’s the sickest, most imaginative and complex novel since Patrick Suskind’s Perfume an implausible, hilarious and beauti fully written tale’Vox

When Ira Fishblatt’s girlfriend, Ruth Grustein. moves into his apartment, he has the kitchen renovated to make her feel at home. She is tickled pink, but hundreds of other houseguests aren’t - the cockroaches who’d been living high on the hog before they were starved out. Famine slowly drives them into a frenzy until one. named Numbers. comes up with a diabolical plan: with the unwitting help of Rufus. the local cocaine dealer. they’ll encourage a nomance between Ira and the pretty neighbour, Elizabeth,and rid themseives forever of Ruth and her damnable tidiness.

Prologue

Genesis

The Terror

The Assassination of Rosa Luxemburg

White Night

A Lock Is Picked

A Watermeloon On The Ground Too Long

Julia Child"s Hoffest Recipe

American Legions

Elizabeth Gets Cold

The Table Is Set

Last Licks

On Tenterhooks

Bless the Rat and the Roach

Checking In

The Breach

Stripe for Stripe

The Kingdom of Heaven