Today Rich Leder and Rockstar Book Tours are revealing the cover for EXTRATERRESTRIAL
NOIR, his sci-fi thriller book which releases July 22nd! Check out the awesome
cover and enter the giveaway!
On to the reveal!
Author: Rich Leder
Pub. Date: July 22, 2025
Publisher: Laugh Riot Press
Formats: Paperback, eBook
Pages: 568
Find it: Goodreads, https://books2read.com/EXTRATERRESTRIAL-NOIR
An
extraterrestrial the size and shape of a boot box crashes into the New Jersey
cul-de-sac Colonial of a film-noir-obsessed family on the sharp edge of
emotional, marital, and financial insolvency; rearranges its subatomic
structure; and presents itself as the couples’ long-time film-noir lust
crushes: late noir icons Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake. In short order,
Alan/Veronica displays an appetite for suburban debauchery, depravity,
decadence, and destruction and seduces the family into its psychopathic criminal
orbit with irresistible film noir panache, alluring sexual charisma, and
inconceivable intergalactic powers.
Twelve-year-old genius daughter, Mike Devine, figures out fast that
Alan/Veronica’s plan is to implode the planet. Can she save the world, not to
mention her family? She’ll need the only armament in the universe that can
subdue the extraterrestrial, and she’ll have to shoot it point blank. So it’s
questionable at best.
Reviews:
“Don't miss this bawdy sci-fi thriller. Leder spins regular doses of sex,
aliens and teen heroism into an unforgettable idiosyncratic comedic gem.”-- BEST THRILLERS
“A sardonic mixture of science
fiction and snarky suburban drama, Extraterrestrial Noir by
Rich Leder is a hilariously original genre mashup.”-- SELF PUBLISHING REVIEW
“Once again, Leder
shows off his bleak sense of humor as this twisted take on first contact
rapidly devolves into a deadly trip through the hidden criminal underworld that
lies beneath an idyllic suburban paradise.”-- BESTSELLERS WORLD
“Rich Leder's Extraterrestrial
Noir is a slap-bang absurdist thriller that bounces from page to page
and loves every minute of it.”-- INDIEREADER
“A wild ride...hilarious and horrifying...an avalanche of sabotage,
gunfights, arms dealing, and more...all the chaos one could hope for in a
comic thriller.”-- INDEPENDENT
BOOK REVIEW
“This dark comedy/science
fiction novel was everything I wished it would be and more.”-- READERS'
FAVORITE Review 1
“A wildly creative mix of
science fiction and classic noir, packed with humor, mystery, and plenty of
surprises.”-- READERS' FAVORITE Review 2
“You will not put down Rich
Leder's Extraterrestrial Noir until you have flipped from cover to cover.”-- READERS'
FAVORITE Review 3
Excerpt:
Five seconds later, a thin silver arm snaked out of the box.
It didn’t come from inside the box. It simply grew, again, seamlessly, out of
the side facing the TV.
The arm stretched purposefully to the huge television, paused
in front of the wide, dark, flat screen as if smelling it, sensing it, then
moved forward, penetrating the screen, passing through it as if by interstellar
osmosis or galactic magic, the end of the arm vanishing somewhere into the flat
panel, becoming one with the TV, which clicked back on, tuned to CNN, the
screen connected directly to the silver box via the arm.
The news ran as it always did, like the lifelike silver
appendage of a box—that had minutes ago fallen from the sky—had not somehow
melted into the television. But then the broadcast began to play faster, as if
someone had previously recorded the program and was fast-forwarding to find a
particularly exciting segment, except that fast-forwarding wasn’t fast enough
for whoever was holding the remote.
CNN picked up speed, its images flying by until they were an
indistinguishable blur of current events. And just when it seemed as if the
television would explode from the inconceivable velocity of the broadcast, the
screen split so that CNN filled one half and Oprah filled the other. Except it
was high-octane Oprah. Oprah at crazy speed. And then both halves of the screen
split again so that there were four programs running simultaneously—CNN, The
Food Network, Oprah, and National Geographic—all four channels racing through
their one-hour shows in thirty seconds, and then in fifteen seconds, and then
five seconds.
The screen split again.
Eight different channels ran concurrently. Then sixteen
channels. Thirty-two channels. Sixty-four channels.
Lifetime, Discovery, HBO, Hallmark, CBS, NBC, ABC, Disney,
Netflix, Showtime, The History Channel, Fox, Comedy Central, the BBC, Spanish
network programming, Cartoon Network. All of these, plus dozens more, played at
the same phenomenal pace.
And then the screen changed format; all sixty-four channels
moved to one half of the screen, and the Google home page appeared on the other
half. Almost instantly, the Google page half divided into four screens—text,
images, maps, and news—which played at the same death-defying pace as the
television channels.
Within seconds, each of the four Google squares divided into
sixty-four squares of text, images, maps, and news, and each one of those 256
mini-screens blasted through global information at warp speed.
Barely 120 seconds had elapsed, but what happened in the next
ten seconds surpassed all that had happened before.
As each second ticked by, both halves of the television
divided into smaller and smaller micro-screens until a thousand screens were
blistering through everything that had ever been written, photographed, filmed,
drawn, recorded, created, invented, and discovered; everyone who had ever lived
and died; everything that had happened in the entire history of man and
Earth—and all of it, every word, image, thought, and breath, was funneling
through the snaky arm into the silver box.
About Rich Leder:
Rich Leder has been a working writer for three decades. His feature credits include Primal for Lionsgate and projects for Paramount Pictures, Tri-Star Pictures, Longridge Productions, and Left Bank Films. His television credits include 18 produced movies for CBS, Lifetime, and Hallmark. He has written six novels for Laugh Riot Press.
He has been the lead singer in a Detroit rock band, a restaurateur, a Little League coach, an indie film director, a literacy tutor, a magazine editor, a screenwriting coach, a wedding guru, a PTA board member, a commercial real estate agent, and a visiting artist for the University of North Carolina Wilmington Film Studies Department, among other things, all of which, it turns out, was grist for the mill.
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Giveaway Details:
3 winners
will win an ARC of EXTRATERRESTRIAL NOIR, US Only.
Ends June 20th, midnight EST.
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