<p><span><b>Punk rock legend Blag Dahlia returns with his third transgressive novel <i>Highland Falls</i></b></span></p><p><span>Nina West is a deceptively petite young trickster who works at a funeral home in the suburban Illinois town of Highland Falls. Her short-term boyfriend Ace fronts the Dunderhearts, a band so unlistenable that only constant infusions of cocaine can make them tolerable. Ace’s grandfather Fredo owns the home and lets the band practice in the basement amid the corpses and formaldehyde while Ace drives the family Hearse.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span>Nina’s brush with a Bolivian consulate official brings so much of South America’s favorite export into their orbit that Dunderheart’s bass player Lex, the only cute one in the band, drops dead just as Nina is about to have her way with him. </span><br></p><p><span>Meanwhile, just down the street, Ricky Leiber return